Cognitive offloading and its consequences

Sam Gilbert, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, explains cognitive offloading: using tools and the environment to reason, remember and manage information. The conversation covers how deep offloading runs in human history, its different forms, why some people and situations involve more of it, and three lines of research on its consequences, the Google effect, the photo-taking impairment effect and GPS navigation, before weighing the possible costs and benefits of offloading in the era of AI.