How to avoid creating “AI zombies” in your workplace

Jul 5 2025 by Fast Company

Zombies have always fascinated me: one favorite is Brad Pitt’s World War Z, a fun movie of the genre with its brain-dead bodies wandering aimlessly through the world looking to feed off the living. But recent highly publicized research from MIT has left me wondering whether we are entering the land of the living dead as we head into the AI-powered workplace. 

The study, carried out by MIT Media Lab, focused on how the use of chatbots impacts our thinking. Using EEG brain scans,...

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