Sure, by now we all know that overusing AI can rot your brain . If you stop doing the critical thinking needed to solve your own problems and start outsourcing everything to a chatbot, eventually your mental muscles are going to atrophy a little. So all you have to do is not rely on it too much, and problem solved, right? Nah. According to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, and University of California, Los Angeles, it may only take about 10 minutes of AI use for your brain to start rotting. Yikes. Videos by VICE The researchers divided participants into groups and gave them reading comprehension and math problems. One group worked normally. The other received help from an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-5 model. Then, without warning, researchers removed the AI assistance midway through the tests. Things got hilariously bleak, fast.…