New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- Following the massive explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) use in daily and professional life, worries are also mounting about whether our cognitive skills are at risk of decline.

In a study released earlier this year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers found that people who used ChatGPT to write essays showed less activity in brain networks associated with cognitive processing while undertaking the exercise, as reported by BBC.

Those who relied on AI struggled to quote from or explain the logic of their own essays afterwards as compared to those in the study who didn't use an AI chatbot.

The MIT study demonstrated "the pressing matter of exploring a possible decrease in learning s...