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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D

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Research scientist @mit @fluidinterfaces @mitmedialab Ph.D in Computer Science and Brain Computer Interfaces. Project lead @NeuraFutures, Augmenting Brains https://linktr.ee/nataliyakosmyna

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jun 16

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

New data shows the ways millions of people have integrated AI into their everyday lives. Also, it suggests that for now at least, AI is an individual productivity tool — both at work and in our personal lives — rather than the broader workplace disrupter many in Big Tech predicted. on.ft.com/47cKBVN

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Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social · Sep 7

Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge? (WSJ gift link): www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will...

Will AI Choke Off the Supply of Knowledge?

More people turn to ChatGPT and other large language models for answers, but they don’t add to the stock of knowledge.

www.wsj.com

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Deutscher Ethikrat @ethikrat.org · 27d

#Hirnimplantate, #Exoskelette, #Sprachprothesen, #Neuro-Gaming: Welche Innovationen prägen die Forschung in der #Neurotechnologie? Öffentliche Anhörung: 18.09., 13.30-18 Uhr 👉 Programm: www.ethikrat.org/veranstaltun...
#Ethikrat #BCI @plasticity-lab.bsky.social @stanford.edu @uni-freiburg.de

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Deutscher Ethikrat @ethikrat.org · 21d

🔔 Herzliche Einladung zur öffentlichen Anhörung #Neurotechnologie: 18. September, 13.30-18 Uhr, 👉 www.ethikrat.org/live
@plasticity-lab.bsky.social @stanford.edu @uni-freiburg.de
#Ethikrat #BCI

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EL País Unofficial @elpais.skyfleet.blue · Aug 24

Global ‘beta’ mode: The massive AI experiment

“It looks like it was made by ChatGPT” is now a colloquial expression. It conveys poor quality, mental laziness, and a lack of spark; not superintelligence, despite OpenAI’s promises when it launched its GPT5 version. Nearly three years after this tool burst into our lives, the revolutions promised by the multi-billion-dollar commercial interests behind artificial intelligence (AI) haven’t arrived. Nor have the self-servingly prophesied apocalypses. Seguir leyendo

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Aug 25

the risks for cognitive development + social changes are real, and not enough is done by the governments to actively investigate those and be more proactive about those.

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Aug 25

just using “Study Mode” will not be a magic solution. What I think would happen at the very least, is that we will end up having a lot of “AI-ready customers”, who literally got exposed to the agents for X years of their life, when their brains have been in active development stage. 2/n

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hard to say without getting into a lot of speculation: we do need more data. It would heavily depend on the type of agents, instructions, the roles, the format of the rest of the school process (will teachers still be there? What is the % of their involvement? Would tower students be around?) 1/n

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check full article here: time.com/7295195/ai-c...

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

time.com

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 30

Just 5 weeks after I talked to the Time magazine's Andrew Chow and mentioned that "I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides,
'let's do GPT kindergarten!", we are now getting news about Baby Grok.

This timeline is not the one I desire for our universe.

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Gérald Tirot @tirotg.bsky.social · Jul 24

Une étude récente sur l'utilisation de #ChatGPT pour la rédaction de dissertations ne dresse pas un portrait flatteur de cet outil. Cependant, certains résultats de l'étude ont été mal interprétés, affirme son auteur principal.
@mit.edu @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social @techlearning.bsky.social

Your Brain On ChatGPT: Everything Educators Need To Know About MIT’s AI Study

A recent study of ChatGPT’s use for writing essays does not paint a flattering picture of the tool. But some of the study’s findings have been misunderstood, says its lead author.

www.techlearning.com

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

My message to you, dear reader, stays clear: if you 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 without your thinking, is it 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠?

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

www.nytimes.com

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

She did put it well, to capture the moment when it becomes «no-brainer» for a LLM user to say «yes» to the next suggestion and relinquish ownership and go from LLM being human’s derivative, to becoming yourself, a derivative of LLM.

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

« This 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 to the world is worth trying to preserve. The act of care that makes meaning – or insight – possible. To do so we 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤.»

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

«When I write, the process is full of risk, error and painstaking self-correction. It arrives somewhere surprising only when I’ve stayed in uncertainty long enough to find out what I had initially failed to understand.»

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 18

Loved today’s Guest Opinion Essay published in @nytimes.com, written by @meghanor.bsky.social after her thought experiment with ChatGPT, also mentioning our paper «Your Brain on ChatGPT».

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · Jul 18

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

I think this is the best thing I’ve ever read on writing and A.I. by @meghanor.bsky.social
Gifted article.

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

www.nytimes.com

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Siegenthaler Lab @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social · Jul 18

@meghanor.bsky.social article is exceptional, the concerns raised apply just as much to scientific writing.
You can use AI to generate ideas, to summarize, to even write your grants & manuscripts...but, ethics aside, do you miss out on 'the pleasure of invention'?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

www.nytimes.com

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 6

Here is the link to the cap (in grey here, with the electrodes): www.neuroelectrics.com/products/res...

Enobio 32 | Neuroelectrics

www.neuroelectrics.com

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 6

Oh no, it is an EEG cap on a mannequin head :-) Here is the photo is color: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Is AI rewiring our minds? Scientists probe cognitive cost of chatbots.

Scientists probe the effects of ChatGPT on brain function and cognitive abilities, raising concerns about its impact on critical thinking and creativity

www.washingtonpost.com

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 5

Excited for today's @nytopinion.nytimes.com in the paper edition of @nytimes.com and online by David Brooks for asking the question.

Our human ability to formulate questions and learn from the answers matters, as never before.

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jul 5

If we fail with Al in education, do other domains even have a chance?

Great to see the conversation taking place. We need more studies and more research done to truly understand where humans benefit from Al in the long term.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jul 3

“A.I. isn’t going anywhere, so the crucial question is one of motivation,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “What do students, and all of us, really care about — clearing the schedule or becoming educated?” https://nyti.ms/44K3cat

Opinion | How A.I. Could Make Us Dumber

It’s not an education if A.I. does your thinking for you.

nyti.ms

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Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jun 24

Please note: “47% collapse” is coming from AI-generated summaries, not from our preprint, please do not post/repost it. We actually tracked that it comes from LLMs (will make a post about it), as are 17 other claims we never made in our paper as well as the vocabulary we are not using :-)

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jun 24

Please note: “47% collapse” is coming from AI-generated summaries, not from our preprint, please do not repost it. We actually tracked that it comes from LLMs (will make a post about it), as are 17 other claims we never made in our paper as well as the vocabulary we are not using :-)

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social · Jun 22

Unfortunately some reporting totally missed on the Limitations section as well, which is very clear.