The Anti-AI Brain

In a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint, 54 participants completed the first three essay-writing sessions and 18 completed a fourth crossover session. The LLM group showed the weakest and least distributed EEG connectivity of the three groups and struggled to quote its own work accurately. The findings are task-specific, the paper remains a preprint, and later researchers have raised methodological questions. Read the preprint ↗

A peer-reviewed Microsoft Research paper surveyed 319 knowledge workers. Higher confidence in GenAI was associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence was associated with more. The paper also found that GenAI can shift critical thinking toward verification, integration, and task stewardship. Read the paper ↗

This book is a dosage guide and a recovery protocol.

What's inside

Part I (Chapters 1-3) examines the risks. How habitual cognitive offloading can affect memory, critical thinking, focus, and creative synthesis — and how the attention economy shapes the environment around those habits.

Part II (Chapters 4-5) provides the models. The neuroscience of brain recovery: neuroplasticity, DeltaFosB, why the first two weeks feel terrible and the next two feel like waking up.

Part III (Chapters 6-9) is the protocol. Thirty days. Seven core practices. Four weeks, each targeting a different layer of your cognitive stack. Day-by-day instructions, each backed by research.

Part IV (Chapter 10) is the philosophy. What cognitive sovereignty means in a world where machines think faster than you. Why your errors are more valuable than AI's polish.

The book is live

The Anti-AI Brain is available on Amazon Kindle. The official book site has the deeper launch page, score diagnostic, research notes, reader flow, and bonus material.