As AI becomes more prevalent in education, work and social life, research is increasingly focused on understanding its nuanced effects on core cognitive functions such as memory, attention and ...

Read other stories from the "These stories were not AI-generated" special edition here. Artificial intelligence usage isn’t just rising among students — it’s rising among professors, to In a 2025 ...

When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful ...

2025 brought a strange convergence: College essays and colonoscopies both demonstrated what can happen when artificial intelligence (AI) leads the work. First came the college data: An MIT team ...

With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological ...

A few years ago I wrote about digital-induced amnesia—the erosion of memory that occurs as we outsource thinking to our devices. I later reflected on technostress, the strain that occurs as those ...

The earliest signs of cognitive decline often appear not in a formal diagnosis, but in the small clues buried in health care providers' notes. A new study published Jan. 7 in the journal npj Digital ...