Colleague Rachel Lomasky, Civitas Institute, reports that though AI users know cut-and-paste copying is not learning, the temptation can be too strong to nix.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 July 2025
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| 0:58.2 | slash G-O. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Rachel's Lomaski writing for Civitas Outlook at Civitas Institute about AI. |
| 1:09.4 | And an experiment tried at MIT Media Labs. |
| 1:14.0 | Some people in the three-parts group used nothing, |
| 1:19.3 | just their brain to write an essay of their choice. |
| 1:22.2 | Other people used the web for research. |
| 1:24.8 | Other people used exclusively AI. |
| 1:30.3 | And what did it show about brain activity? |
| 1:38.2 | Common sensically, those who used nothing had the most brain activity. Those who used AI had the least. What do we learn from this? Here's Rachel to explain how everybody knows what I just said, |
| 1:46.1 | but they don't necessarily follow through on learning in a fashion that would empower you in future. |
| 1:56.2 | Rachel Lamaski of the responsible Internet, AI company called flex |
| 2:03.4 | more of this later |
| 2:05.1 | I mean I think I think people are well aware of it at this |
| 2:08.6 | situation but still using it to take shortcuts |
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