Brainmaxxing describes deliberate programs of cognitive enhancement — via training, nootropics, neurotechnology, and optimized pedagogy — framed as a societal strategy to preserve human agency and employability in an AI‑rich economy. If adopted widely, it would shift debates from just regulating AI to financing, accrediting, and governing human enhancement interventions with implications for inequality and labor policy.
— Treating human cognitive enhancement as a public policy and labor-market lever reframes AI policy from only controlling machines to investing in human capabilities, changing who benefits and who is left behind.
Ethan Siegel
2026.03.25
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The article’s title and argument (advocating 'brainmaxxing' in the age of AI) exemplify this shift from external automation responses to internal human augmentation as a socially meaningful strategy.
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