DiscoverActual Intelligence with Steve PearlmanIs ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”
Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Update: 2025-08-21
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We finally have emerging research on Artificial Intelligence's consequences for actual intelligence.  If you're an educator or parent--or if you're anyone who just thinks that thinking is important--then you need to learn about this study.  It offers hard evidence that our young people are in danger of diminished thinking skills for life.



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Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Is ChatGPT Dumbing Down your Kid? A New MIT Study Says, “Yes.”

Steve Pearlman, Ph.D.