Your brain on ChatGPT: now with 47% more artificial moral panic

An academic research paper title page with author affiliations and an EEG brain mapping figure. The paper discusses cognitive load and 'cognitive debt' from using ChatGPT for essay writing, featuring scientific brain visualization data with p-value significance indicators comparing LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only conditions. Extracted text: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task△ Nataliya Kosmyna¹ MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA Eugene Hauptmann MIT Cambridge, MA Ye Tong Yuan Wellesley College Wellesley, MA Jessica Situ MIT Cambridge, MA Xian-Hao Liao Mass. College of Art and Design (MassArt) Boston, MA Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky MIT Cambridge, MA Iris Braunstein MIT Cambridge, MA Pattie Maes MIT Media Lab Cambridge, MA United States Figure 1. The dynamic Direct Transfer Function (dDTF) EEG analysis of Alpha Band for groups: LLM, Search Engine, Brain-only, including p-values to show significance from moderately significant (*) to highly significant (***). Nataliya Kosmyna is the corresponding author, please contact her at nkosmyna@mit.edu Distributed under CC BY-NC-SA