MIT professor says AI is taking over your brain

In an interview, an MIT professor describes how AI dependency develops: people stop practicing the acts that build skills, become uncomfortable working without AI, and reach for it more, a cycle that compounds over time. He argues that friction-adding chatbot designs (hints instead of answers, short waits) produce better thinking even though users rate them worse, and urges readers to identify their "signature thinking skills" and work backward to decide how to use AI.