How to Be Patient

Your Brain on AI: Interview with MIT Media Lab’s Nataliya Kosmyna

How to Be Patient

Show Notes

Today, we present to you our first Journal Club episode, in which we feature a primary author of an important piece of research. Online, content supercedes context, and when it comes to emerging hypothesis around big topics–like AI–this loss of context can lead to polarizing views. Today, we are excited to share a longer form interview with one of the leads of the MIT Media Lab’s study that was published as a pre-print this summer: Your Brain on ChatGPT.

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Citations:

Primary Paper and FAQ’s from MIT team : https://www.brainonllm.com/

Unesco 2025 ethics of neurotechnology draft: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000394866/PDF/394866eng.pdf.multi

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