Your Brain on ChatGPT with Nataliya Kosmyna

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What happens to your brain when you use AI? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore current research into how large language models affect our cognition, memory, and learning with Nataliya Kosmyna, research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. Is AI good for us?

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0:00.0	Chuck, if the forces of AI are not big enough in society and our culture, we're not got to think about what AI's effect is on our brain?
0:10.0	I'm going to say that there is no help from my brain, so it does not make a difference.
0:17.0	I know, but Neil, if you lean into these large language models and it takes away some of our core skills, surely that can't be an upside to that.
0:26.3	Once again, Gary, not going to affect me at all.
0:30.5	Coming up, StarTalk Special Edition, your brain on AI.
0:37.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:39.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:44.3	StarTalk begins right now.
0:48.3	This is StarTalk, Special Edition.
0:53.3	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:56.7	And when it's special edition, you know that means we have Gary O'Reilly in the house.
1:01.4	Gary.
1:02.0	Hi, Neil.
1:03.1	All right.
1:03.8	We got another one of these.
1:04.8	We're going to connect the viewer, listener, to the human condition.
1:11.3	Yes.
1:11.6	Oh my gosh.
1:13.2	But let me get my other co-host introduced here.
1:15.7	That would be Chuck Nice.
1:16.7	Chuck, how are you doing, man?
1:17.5	Hey, man.
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