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Are we losing our minds to AI? | BBC News

AI can write, code, plan and problem-solve in seconds. But as we hand more tasks over to machines, what happens to our own skills?

In this episode AI Decoded investigates whether AI is enhancing human intelligence or quietly eroding it.

From doctors and software engineers to students growing up with AI tutors, we explore new research suggesting that reliance on AI could affect critical thinking, expertise and decision-making.

Presenter Marc Cieslak is joined by world leading Paediatric Neurosurgeon Owase Jeelani, Digital Transformation Researcher Dr Tapani Rinta-Kahila, and AI Decoded co-host Dr Stephanie Hare.

As AI becomes our everyday assistant, are we gaining a powerful new tool — or outsourcing the very abilities that make us human?

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