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MIT Professor: One Skill That Protects Your Career in the age of AI | Max Tegmark

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πŸ“Œ Grab the FREE AEO Playbook β€” learn how to show up in ChatGPT and Perplexity before your competitors do: https://clickhubspot.com/d6b198 MIT researchers measured what ChatGPT is actually doing to your brain. The results were alarming β€” 55% less brain connectivity, and 83% of users couldn't explain their own work minutes later. They called it cognitive debt. I sat down with Max Tegmark, MIT professor and one of the world's leading AI safety researchers, to understand where this is all heading β€” and what it means for your career right now. 00:00 - MIT study: ChatGPT users show 55% less brain activity 01:14 - Max Tegmark: "Game over for humanity" without AI regulation 02:28 - Cognitive debt β€” what MIT discovered 03:36 - How close are we to AGI β€” and the test that tells you 05:24 - The one skill AI can't replace + McKinsey data 05:50 - Ad: HubSpot AEO Playbook 08:11 - The shocking story Max told me 10:28 - What's actually happening with AI regulation right now 11:40 - What you can do right now 12:52 - 3 rules for using AI Links: πŸ“© Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com/ πŸ”— My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ πŸ“Œ My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co πŸ“Ή Video brainstorming, research, and project planning - all in one place - https://partner.spotterstudio.com/ideas-with-marina πŸ’» Resources that helps my team and me grow the business: - Email & SMS Marketing Automation - https://your.omnisend.com/marina - AI app to work with docs and PDFs - https://www.chatpdf.com/?via=marina πŸ“±Develop your YouTube with AI apps: - AI tool to edit videos in a minutes https://get.descript.com/fa2pjk0ylj0d - Boost your view and subscribers on YouTube - https://vidiq.com/marina - #1 AI video clipping tool - https://www.opus.pro/?via=7925d2 πŸ’° Investment Apps: - Top credit cards for free flights, hotels, and cash-back - https://www.cardonomics.com/i/marina - Intuitive platform for stocks, options, and ETFs - https://a.webull.com/Tfjov8wp37ijU849f8 ⭐ Download my English language workbook - https://bit.ly/3hH7xFm I use affiliate links whenever possible (if you purchase items listed above using my affiliate links, I will get a bonus). #siliconvalleygirlpodcast #maxtegmark #worldeconomicforum

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@genxjacob 2026-03-20

I’d like to see a study on the effect of cognitive offloading on those who have no inside voice vs strong inner dialogue. it got me thinking that this could be an issue when the Silicon Valley girl said, β€œpause for 30 seconds before you prompt and think of the outcome that you want.” πŸ€”

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@iamllux 2026-03-23

We aren't building something smarter than us. We are amassing knowledge in databases that can recall things almost instantly with a natural language promt. That's not intelligence. It's not thinking. It's instant access to answers and even shortcuts to things we should learn ourselves. But it's not intelligence. You can use it to learn just like a library, but you can't copy and paste stuff from the library for your thesis paper. That's what we're doing. We need to start using it ethically and doing our own work.

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@JustinPerea 2026-03-20

I learned this early on and have had to take counter measures to make sure I'm still learning and not off loading too much cognitive function

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@othmane-mezian 2026-03-20

Speed and efficiency and volume are not always the best choice

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@quesoestbonne 2026-03-24

Using LLMs is the crack version of copying your shoolwork and homework instead of doing it yourself

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@sohailhines 2026-03-20

AI is extremely powerful and revolutionary. It will continue to have dramatic impacts in our efficiency and productivity. However to say that it will "start thinking for us" is a grave hyperbole or even fantasy. For all it's contributions, AI has generated few (if any) *original ideas or thoughts* . It is trained on human work products, aspirations and goals. Let's not sell human intellectual capital so short.

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@clickbaitey8244 2026-03-30

4:19 actually, the Turing Test is likely a Red Herring for deciding if AGI has been reached. Language is only a small subset of human experience/capabilities. For example, passing the Turing Test is not proof that LLMs can reason.

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@MommyZombie322 2026-03-20

the Turing Trap, imitation games, replicate human work, replace

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@markland1000 2026-03-21

Good word

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@ClairePetersen-p6d 2026-03-29

I notice using the prewritten words during texting affected my spelling. I went back to slow mode, spelling myself every word with restoration to spelling. In school I noticed reading greatly improved my spelling

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