Dhaka, May 26 -- Emma, a college sophomore, stares at her screen. Her professor just assigned an essay on Kafka's Metamorphosis and her fingers hover immediately over ChatGPT. 'Why struggle,' she thinks, 'when AI can analyze it for me?' This split-second decision mirrors a global cognitive shift:

We're trading mental effort for convenience, and our brains are adapting in alarming ways.What happens to a muscle when it's not used? It weakens. It atrophies. It only recovers when its used again. So, what happens to a mind when thinking is outsourced? As you glance at ChatGPT, perhaps to write your next email or summarize your next work task, consider what cognitive muscles you might be allowing to weaken?In a laboratory at Switzerland, parti...