In just a few years, artificial intelligence - known as AI - has gone from being an abstract concept reserved almost exclusively for science fiction films to becoming a tool we use constantly. It helps us to write texts, search for answers, translate languages, plan trips and create our fitness regimes among what seems like an endless number of other uses. But this technological revolution poses a question: could AI be changing, or even atrophying , the way our brain functions?

As we increasingly delegate more of our cognitive tasks to algorithms, it's logical to wonder if we aren't hampering the exercise of skills that were once essential: remembering, deducing, paying attention, writing, calculating or even conversing face-to-face.

And although the aim isn't to demonise AI, expe

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