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Is ‘AI Brain Rot’ Ruining Your Career? What Modern Recruiters Are Looking For

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12.05.2026

Is ‘AI Brain Rot’ Ruining Your Career? What Modern Recruiters Are Looking For

New data shows AI ‘brain rot’ is real. Here’s why your technical skills won’t save you if you’ve lost the ability to think critically.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

Illustration: Inc; Photo: Adobe Stock

Nothing is perfect—including artificial intelligence tools, or the experience and skills using them that a growing number of employers now regard as requisite in hiring. In fact, according to a flurry of recent reports, many businesses now fear that over-reliance on AI by graduating college students may have left them “a little brain-rotted” when facing tasks without the tech.That state of relative cerebral decay is how a recent Business Insider article described the fear of many hiring managers that college students may........

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