Research & Studies

Academic papers I cite in writing and workshops about AI literacy, cognition, and human creativity.

2025

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann, Ye Tong Yuan, Jessica Situ, Xian-Hao Liao, Ashly Vivian Beresnitzky, Iris Braunstein, Pattie Maes

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing using EEG to assess cognitive load during essay writing across four months, revealing that LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

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2022

Language Models Exhibit Emergent Abilities in Complex Reasoning Tasks

Jason Wei, Yi Tay, Rishi Bommasani, et al.

We investigate the emergence of abilities in language models, finding that certain complex reasoning capabilities appear suddenly at specific model scales rather than gradually improving. This suggests fundamental phase transitions in AI capabilities that could lead to rapid improvements in performance across many domains.

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