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Brain Experts WARNING: Watch This Before Using ChatGPT Again! (Shocking New Discovery)

2025-08-18 People & Blogs
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The Cognitive Cost: Experts Analyze AI's Impact on Brain Shrinkage and Memory

Harnessing AI safely requires understanding its trade-offs, as two leading brain specialists reveal how careless usage can erase cognitive function, kill creativity, and potentially accelerate dementia risk.

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  • MIT research indicated a 47% collapse in brain activity when subjects used ChatGPT for writing compared to writing unassisted.
  • Lifelong learning and engaging cognitive load build "brain reserve," which serves as the primary defense against future dementia.
  • Misuse of AI, particularly early in life or deferring critical thinking, threatens emotional growth and rewires brains for immediate dopamine hits over deep engagement.
  • Experts urge viewers to use AI to amplify work, not replace thinking, and to proactively protect brain health against lifestyle negatives like poor diet and chronic noise.

This discussion pits computational neuroscience against brain imaging psychiatry to examine the immediate and long-term neurological consequences of Large Language Models. Readers gain actionable steps to build resilience and ensure AI serves as a tool for enhancement rather than a cognitive debt accelerant.

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Dr Daniel Amen is a renowned brain health expert who has scanned the brains of Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Kendall Jenner. He is joined by Dr Terry Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational neuroscience and co-creator of the Boltzmann machine with Geoffrey Hinton, a groundbreaking neural network that helped lay the foundation for modern AI. MIT just announced that AI is rotting your brain?! Two world-leading experts break this study down and reveal how AI and ChatGPT could silently shrink your brain, kill creativity, and wreck your memory. They discuss: ▪️ The evolutionary reason why ChatGPT is dangerous for your brain ▪️ How ChatGPT trains your brain to avoid discomfort, and why that’s dangerous ▪️ How using AI too early in life may block emotional growth and resilience ▪️ The surprising reason AI might make you more anxious, not less ▪️ Why brain reserve is your greatest defense against future decline ▪️ The hidden mental cost of seeking “perfect” partners through robotics and artificial intimacy ▪️ What you can do right now to protect your brain health in an AI-saturated world ⏱️ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:36 Terry's Background 03:18 Daniel Amen Introduction 04:19 MIT Study: ChatGPT and Reduced Brain Function 07:25 The Link Between ChatGPT and Dementia 10:52 Biggest AI Concerns Before Understanding Long-Term Consequences 19:32 What Does a Healthy Relationship with AI Look Like? 22:53 AI and Early Brain Development 25:26 AI Girlfriends 35:21 Why Struggle Is Good for Your Brain 37:07 Biggest Concerns with AI 40:09 ChatGPT Best Practices 44:50 Do We Still Need to Spell? 46:36 How Can We Learn Better? 48:16 How to Avoid Procrastination 51:56 Ads 53:58 Boosting Brain Health Without AI 57:41 Are We Raising Mentally Weak Kids? 58:30 Effects of Religion on the Brain 01:01:27 How to Build a Brain-Healthy Nation 01:03:38 Things That Are Bad for Your Brain 01:07:08 Artificial Sweeteners 01:08:50 Is Loud Noise Bad for Your Brain? 01:10:03 Ads 01:10:54 Multitasking 01:12:43 What’s Causing the Rise in ADHD? 01:15:50 Negativity in the Brain 01:18:14 The Top Tip for a Healthier Brain 01:20:51 Importance of Sleep for Brain Health 01:26:42 Are You Prepared for Your Next Health Challenge? Follow Dr Daniel: Instagram - https://bit.ly/45pGDHk X - https://bit.ly/4m8NtIz Website - https://bit.ly/4lhW9uS Podcast - https://apple.co/4op5WSz You can purchase Dr Daniel’s book, ‘Raising Mentally Strong Kids’, here: https://amzn.to/4ldncHB Follow Dr Terry: X - https://bit.ly/4frO4T6 Salk Institute Academic Profile - https://bit.ly/3H3Sy5H Publications - https://bit.ly/4mbwrcS You can purchase Dr Terry’s book, ‘ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution’, here: https://amzn.to/45kw0Wb The Diary Of A CEO: ⬜️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ⬜️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ⬜️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ⬜️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ⬜️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ⬜️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Independent research: https://stevenbartlett.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DOAC-Dr-Terry-Dr-Amen-debate-Independent-Research-further-reading-.pdf Sponsors: Stan Store - https://stevenbartlett.stan.store/ for your 30-day free trial Vodafone - Check out the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1Swvp4X5w

Top Comments (10)

@TheDiaryOfACEO 2025-08-18

Your brain is too important to gamble with! If you care about staying sharp in this AI era consider subscribing. Every episode we drop is designed to keep you ahead and deliver maximum value. Thank you 🙏🏻

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@Eduard.Tudorache 2025-08-18

Guys, can we just take a moment and appreciate how consistently Steven drops these episodes, every single one packed with value. The effort, the quality, the insight… it’s next level.

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@maryannepayne1352 2026-03-12

The problem is the children use it in school and aren't learning. All school work should be done with pen and paper.

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@zara_rv 2025-08-20

My grandma is 96 speaks 8 languages and sees better than me and doesn’t have dementia. She’s on no medication. She just needs help walking. She’s so smart. They don’t make them as they use to. She went to the hospital as she has a dislocated shoulder and the doctor asked what kind of animals are in the forest? She replied which country and which forest ? 😂 the doctors left

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@zalayharsankar 2025-11-22

I am 74 years old, a retired teacher I have been listening to hair podcasts for while. They are the most interesting and informative that I have found. Your guests are experts, you are smart and well prepared This combination is exactly what I need to learn new things about this ever changing world. You're a great educator Thank you so very much ❤😊

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@kmaldon 2025-08-18

We need WAY more of these kinds of group discussions / debates!! Love this format, keep doing it please across a variety of topics.

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@andrewclark7872 2025-08-19

My Wife has just gone back to teaching after 5 years full time parenting. The first day back at the staff planning meet they were discussing ideas for this months class content. She offered up the ideas she thinks would interesting and fun for the kids to do. The other younger teachers in the meeting thought her ideas were really great and wondered out aloud why Chat GPT hadn't suggested it to them as that's what they had all used to get their lesson plan ideas. she was rather shocked by their laziness and lack of creativity. If this is the future of teaching and your Childs education, we should all be very worried!

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@HansArrieta-b3q 2026-05-16

To stop thinking is to accept your death. Analyze. Love your brain — it's the only one you get.

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@marcinsolak5169 2026-02-21

Dzień dobry Steven dziękuje ci za ten bardzo dobry wywiad . Zawsze słucham wszystkiego po trzy razy i przemyślam to co ci wszyscy eksperci mówią no i ty, Dużo mi to dało nauczyło i zaczynam korzystać z następnego poziomu twoich podpowiedzi. Zaczynam poświęcać codziennie godzinne na książki. Pozdrawiam Marcin z Polski

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@barcafan1941 2025-08-18

Dont use it to do your work, interact with it to get better work. -Dr. Daniel Amen

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