Investors Warn of 'AI Brain Rot': Employees Losing Critical Thinking From Over-Reliance on AI
vaibhavbetter · x · 2026-09-26
Investor Astasia Myers reports a new concern from founders: 'AI brain rot.' Some employees have become so reliant on AI that they're losing critical thinking and struggle to ask the second-order questions needed to move initiatives forward. The poster adds this will spread faster than we can imagine — a notable signal about AI's hidden costs to workplace cognition.
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