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Is AI changing how we think?
15 minutes Posted Jul 26, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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AI has taken the grunt work out of many everyday tasks; from writing emails to planning dinner.  
But are we starting to rely on AI to think for us and could it be making us dumber?  
Today, Steven Shaw from the University of Pennsylvania on his research into cognitive surrender, AI and your brain. 
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Steven Shaw, post-doctoral researcher at Wharton Marketing School, University of Pennsylvania and incoming associate professor at Kings College London.