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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The headlines warning about AI melting our brains usually point to students or workers, which — fair enough. But there’s a much more ironic victim hiding in the corner office: the very business executives who unleashed AI on us in the first place. A recent study conducted by market research agency 3Gem and flagged by The Register found that business leaders in the United Kingdom seem to b

Getty / Futurism It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams. Harder to quantify — but impossible to miss if you’ve spent any time in school lately — is the situation unfolding across classrooms, where students from all layers of s