Your Brain on AI: Well-Being in the Digital Age

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This course examines how AI tools influence attention, memory, learning, judgment, creativity, and well-being. Students analyze when AI augments human capability and when it fosters dependence, drawing on cognitive science and real-world tasks. Through experiments, reflection, and design exercises, students develop strategies for using AI to support understanding, autonomy, and flourishing while avoiding cognitive offloading that weakens skills, habits, and human connection. Students build a personal framework for healthy AI use across study, work, and daily life.