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Jun
AI Isn't Rotting Your Brain—It's Quietly Rewiring Who's in Charge You used to remember your best friend's phone number. You used to argue with people using facts you'd actually memorized, or at least facts you'd bothered to look up yourself. You used to sit with uncertainty for a few minutes before asking someone else. Now, you ask Claude or ChatGPT in 3 seconds, and it tells you an answer that sounds so confident you don't bother double-checking it. That's not brain rot. It's something more interesting—and harder to reckon with: a fundamental shift in who controls your cognitive process. The…