The first thing that pops up when you open ChatGPT, the most popular and widely used AI (artificial intelligence) Chatbot, is “ask anything”. Besides the filter on graphic and inappropriate content, quite literally anything can be asked to ChatGPT and any other chatbot and recent studies have shown that the heavy use of AI has started to rewire our brains. 

A study by MIT showed that using ChatGPT shows that using it leads to “cognitive debt” and a “likely decrease in learning skills.” The MIT team over a course of four months asked 54 adults to write a series of three essays using their brains or using ChatGPT. 

The team measured cognitive engagement and found that those who used AI had a significant lower engagement than the brain only group. These findings are preliminary and require further testing. 

Crystal Wei ’26, a member of Riordan’s biomed program, said, “The findings of this study unveils a questionable future for the youth population’s future. As AI grows to become more overused, how would it affect the cognitive skills of people and how would humans grow to think differently? It is scary to imagine the worse but hopefully there will be regulations made to keep AI a tool that won’t replace human thinking.”

Anish Gupta, a director at Nvidia who works directly with artificial intelligence said, “These findings may not be that off because the human mind is built to process a large amount of data by nature.” 

AI has had widespread use in society today. As a tool, it has been used widely in the engineering world to help facilitate and eliminate menial tasks while solving difficult problems.

Additionally, it has been used to help aid in learning in and outside classrooms. AI has become a prevalent part of society, and many people on a day to day basis are very reliant on it. 

Despite academic misconduct, AI has also been used by students for school assignments and assessments. AI has also been used among some teachers in their tasks. 

As of press time, ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly active users, with the tool and other chatbots having widespread use. The most used AI chatbots following ChatGPT are Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude also holding millions of active users. 

Noah Santiago ’26 said, “I think AI will mostly improve people’s way of getting information of the world of politics way more efficiently and create a less biased outlook on events. It will give more people an opportunity to not only look at one side but both sides so it’s easier for people to disagree but see where they are coming from.” 

AI has also found its way onto social media through mass generated short videos that have gotten hundreds of millions of views through TikTok videos, Youtube shorts, and Instagram reels. 

Currently, the biggest provider for AI computing infrastructure is Nvidia, which contains over 80% of chips that train and deploy AI models. Nvidia chips are used in ChatGPT and other popular AI chatbots that provide its infrastructure as well as training. 

Gupta said, “When you talk about an AI data center, we are looking at a physical building in some part of the country where power is cheap, there’s a lot of water for cooling and power also to run the compute needed by these AI data center servers. Once the server has been built to create an application like Claude, Codex, or even ChatGPT, what these previous companies do is they train their data using our data center servers.” 

Nvidia has used AI as a way to elevate mental health as well, building and working on multiple projects that help aid in mental health while providing the infrastructure in the AI mental health area. 

One of these projects include Dawn, an AI agent that is used for mental health support through therapeutic conversations. Other projects are being made with Nvidia relating to mental health support through artificial intelligence. 

Gupta said, “There are a lot of tasks that require manual labor. Those will become more important, but for tasks involving decision-making where AI is needed, AI will help the younger generation become more efficient and focus on other parts of their work. In that way, it’ll help them become much more productive.” 

The reliance on AI is growing in society and it continues to make its way into more aspects of daily life. As society progresses and technology further advances, AI will grow, becoming a bigger part of everyone’s life. 

Gupta added, “What I have seen with AI is its helping me to have a team that can scale and do a lot more things compared to me requiring hiring hundreds of people to do the same amount of work.”

He continued, “The second thing is its opening up making decision making easier where it proposes a variety of angles of looking at a solution where earlier, unless you had experience in that area you wouldn’t know how to deal with it. 

The features and what AI brings to the table is something that has never been seen before in society, and will change society in a massive way.