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This simple, 2-page guide provides quick bullet point insights on:

•What the AI Trap is
• How you're making symptoms worse
• Why you feel stuck
• Tips on what to do
• Supplements that may support cognitive function

You’ve felt it. Now you’ll see why.

                        Tier 1: Evidence: The Core Damage

  • Apple – “The Illusion of Thinking” (NeurIPS 2025)

    “AI can create the illusion you’re thinking.”

    Feels like output… but your brain does less of the work.

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  • NameMIT – “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt” (2025)

    “Cognitive debt builds when AI does the thinking.”

    Skipped mental effort shows up later as fog and fatigue.

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  • Wharton – “Without Guardrails, Generative AI Can Harm Education” (2024)

    “Learning and retention can drop.”

    Fast answers can reduce understanding and recall.

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  • Carnegie Mellon + Microsoft – “Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking” (2025)

    "Critical thinking effort declines.”

    More offloading = less confidence when AI isn’t there.

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  • Stadler et al. – “Cognitive Ease at a Cost” (2024)

    “Ease replaces effort.”

    When it feels easy, your skills stop building and start shrinking.

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  • Barcaui – “ChatGPT as a Cognitive Crutch” (2025)

    “AI becomes a crutch.”

    Heavy users struggle more when they have to think alone.

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                    Supporting & Institutional Evidence

  • Gerlich – “AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading” (2025)

    “Offloading increases.”

    You stop storing things when the tool stores it for you.

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  • Jose – “The Cognitive Paradox of AI in Education” (2025)

    “Faster, but shallower.”

    Speed goes up. Depth goes down.

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  • RAND – “AI Use in Schools Is Increasing but Guidance Lags” (2025)

    “Adoption is fast. Guardrails aren’t.”

    When tools spread faster than standards, learning gets messy.

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  • European Commission JRC – “Generative AI Outlook Report” (2025)

    “Skill erosion is a real risk.”

    As dependence rises, human capability can degrade.

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  • Oxford University Press (UK) – Teen AI Literacy (2025)

    “Faster… but shallower thinkers.”

    Quick output doesn’t mean deep understanding.

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  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights – AI in K-12 Hearings (2024–2025)

    “Real concerns in education.”

    Formal hearings addressing impacts and risks at scale.

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  • Wharton – “Without Guardrails, Generative AI Can Harm Education” (2024)

    “Learning and retention can drop.”

    Fast answers can reduce understanding and recall.

    View Study 

  • Stadler et al. – “Cognitive Ease at a Cost” (2024)

    “Ease replaces effort.”

    When it feels easy, your skills stop building and start shrinking.

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  • Dubey et al. – “Redefining Cognitive Domains in the Era of ChatGPT” (2024)

    “Core thinking patterns change.”

    Attention, reasoning, and decision habits shift with AI use.

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I’ve lived in environments where thinking clearly wasn’t optional, it was survival.

I’m a Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur, and parent who’s spent years operating in high stress, high stakes systems where bad information gets people hurt and blind obedience gets people controlled. I’ve seen what happens when people stop thinking for themselves and start outsourcing judgment to authority, technology, or convenience. You probably have, too, and if not.. just look around next time you're out and about.

That’s why I started paying close attention when I saw the same pattern repeating..this time with AI.

Not as a tool, but as a crutch.

Not as "leverage", but as substitution for thinking.

The AI Trap was created because I don’t believe the greatest risk of artificial intelligence is what it can do but what it slowly trains humans not to do: reason, question, remember, and decide independently.

I’m not anti-technology. I’m anti-dependency. I do think AI is a great tool when used correctly.

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