ChatGPT Brain Rot Debate: The Fastest Way to Get Dementia, Watch This Before Using ChatGPT Again, Especially If Your Kids Use It!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

MIT just announced that AI is rotting your brain?! Two world-leading experts break this study down and reveal how AI and ChatGPT could silently shrink your brain, kill creativity, and wreck your memory.

Dr Daniel Amen is a renowned psychiatrist, brain health expert, and founder of Amen Clinics, which holds over 270,000 brain scans. He is joined by Dr Terry Sejnowski, a pioneer in the field of computational neuroscience and co-creator of the Boltzmann machine, a groundbreaking neural network that helped lay the foundation for modern AI.

They discuss:

• The evolutionary reason why ChatGPT is dangerous for your brain

• How ChatGPT trains your brain to avoid discomfort, and why that’s dangerous

• How using AI too early in life may block emotional growth and resilience

• The surprising reason AI might make you more anxious, not less

• Why brain reserve is your greatest defense against future decline

• The hidden mental cost of seeking “perfect” partners through robotics and artificial intimacy

• What you can do right now to protect your brain health in an AI-saturated world

  00:00 Intro

  00:02:53 Terry's Background

  00:03:35 Daniel Amen Introduction

  00:04:35 MIT Study: ChatGPT and Reduced Brain Function

  00:07:42 The Link Between ChatGPT and Dementia

  00:11:09 Biggest AI Concerns Before Understanding Long-Term Consequences

  00:19:49 What Does a Healthy Relationship with AI Look Like?

  00:23:09 AI and Early Brain Development

  00:25:43 AI Girlfriends

  00:35:38 Why Struggle Is Good for Your Brain

  00:37:24 Biggest Concerns with AI

  00:40:26 ChatGPT Best Practices

  00:45:07 Do We Still Need to Spell?

  00:46:53 How Can We Learn Better?

  00:48:32 How to Avoid Procrastination

  00:52:12 Ads

  00:54:15 Boosting Brain Health Without AI

  00:57:57 Are We Raising Mentally Weak Kids?

  00:58:46 Effects of Religion on the Brain

  01:01:43 How to Build a Brain-Healthy Nation

  01:03:55 Things That Are Bad for Your Brain

  01:07:24 Artificial Sweeteners

  01:09:07 Is Loud Noise Bad for Your Brain?

  01:10:19 Ads

  01:11:11 Multitasking

  01:12:59 What’s Causing the Rise in ADHD?

  01:16:07 Negativity in the Brain

  01:18:30 The Top Tip for a Healthier Brain

  01:21:08 Importance of Sleep for Brain Health

  01:26:59 Are You Prepared for Your Next Health Challenge?

Follow Dr Daniel:

Instagram - https://bit.ly/45pGDHk

X - https://bit.ly/4m8NtIz

Website - https://bit.ly/4lhW9uS

Podcast - https://apple.co/4op5WSz

You can purchase Dr Daniel’s book, ‘Raising Mentally Strong Kids’, here: https://amzn.to/4ldncHB

Follow Dr Terry:

X - https://bit.ly/4frO4T6

Salk Institute Academic Profile - https://bit.ly/3H3Sy5H

Publications - https://bit.ly/4mbwrcS

You can purchase Dr Terry’s book, ‘ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution’, here: https://amzn.to/45kw0Wb

The Diary Of A CEO:

⬜️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/

⬜️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook

⬜️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt

⬜️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb

⬜️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt

⬜️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb

Independent research:https://stevenbartlett.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DOAC-Dr-Terry-Dr-Amen-debate-Independent-Research-further-reading-.pdf

Sponsors:

Stan Store - https://stevenbartlett.stan.store/ for your 30-day free trial
Vodafone - Check out the first episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1Swvp4X5w

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices