Miles Cranmer's "How to avoid AI Brain Rot" talk: AI pulls your work quality to the population mean
MilesCranmer · x · 2026-10-15
Miles Cranmer gave a talk titled "How to avoid AI Brain Rot" to MPhil students, on avoiding intelligence atrophy from AI use in work and study—and how to stand out on an ever-narrowing bell curve. A slide nails the core mechanism: AI pulls you toward the population mean, compressing everyone's work quality into one tall peak where individual edges get flattened.
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