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MIT Professor: The One Skill AI Can't Replace — Most People Are Losing It Right Now | Max Tegmark

📌 Grab the FREE AEO Playbook — learn how to show up in ChatGPT and Perplexity before your competitors do: https://clickhubspot.com/d6b198 MIT researchers measured what ChatGPT is actually doing to your brain. The results were alarming — 55% less brain connectivity, and 83% of users couldn't explain their own work minutes later. They called it cognitive debt. I sat down with Max Tegmark, MIT professor and one of the world's leading AI safety researchers, to understand where this is all heading — and what it means for your career right now. 00:00 - MIT study: ChatGPT users show 55% less brain activity 01:14 - Max Tegmark: "Game over for humanity" without AI regulation 02:28 - Cognitive debt — what MIT discovered 03:36 - How close are we to AGI — and the test that tells you 05:24 - The one skill AI can't replace + McKinsey data 05:50 - Ad: HubSpot AEO Playbook 08:11 - The shocking story Max told me 10:28 - What's actually happening with AI regulation right now 11:40 - What you can do right now 12:52 - 3 rules for using AI Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_content=Max-Tegmark-interview 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co #siliconvalleygirlpodcast #maxtegmark #worldeconomicforum

Marina MogilkohostMax Tegmarkguest
Mar 20, 202615mWatch on YouTube ↗

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March 20, 2026
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15m
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Silicon Valley Girl
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📌 Grab the FREE AEO Playbook — learn how to show up in ChatGPT and Perplexity before your competitors do: https://clickhubspot.com/d6b198 MIT researchers measured what ChatGPT is actually doing to your brain. The results were alarming — 55% less brain connectivity, and 83% of users couldn't explain their own work minutes later. They called it cognitive debt. I sat down with Max Tegmark, MIT professor and one of the world's leading AI safety researchers, to understand where this is all heading — and what it means for your career right now. 00:00 - MIT study: ChatGPT users show 55% less brain activity 01:14 - Max Tegmark: "Game over for humanity" without AI regulation 02:28 - Cognitive debt — what MIT discovered 03:36 - How close are we to AGI — and the test that tells you 05:24 - The one skill AI can't replace + McKinsey data 05:50 - Ad: HubSpot AEO Playbook 08:11 - The shocking story Max told me 10:28 - What's actually happening with AI regulation right now 11:40 - What you can do right now 12:52 - 3 rules for using AI Links: 📩 Follow my Newsletter: https://siliconvalleygirl.beehiiv.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_content=Max-Tegmark-interview 🔗 My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvalleygirl/ 📌 My Companies & Products: https://Marinamogilko.co #siliconvalleygirlpodcast #maxtegmark #worldeconomicforum

SPEAKERS

  • Marina Mogilko

    host

    YouTuber and entrepreneur behind the Silicon Valley Girl channel, hosting interviews with tech leaders.

  • Max Tegmark

    guest

    MIT professor and AI safety researcher, known for work on AGI risks and the Future of Life Institute.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Silicon Valley Girl, featuring Marina Mogilko and Max Tegmark, MIT Professor: The One Skill AI Can't Replace — Most People Are Losing It Right Now | Max Tegmark explores aI boosts productivity but erodes judgment; regulation and habits matter now An MIT study suggests heavy ChatGPT use can reduce brain connectivity and leave users unable to explain their own work, framing this as “cognitive debt.”

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