# What Cars Did to Your City, AI Will Do to Your Brain ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/uploaded_book_covers/profile_1188016/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F900594bc-e94d-4b2b-a464-743eb456d934_720x480.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Jonn Elledge]] - Full Title: What Cars Did to Your City, AI Will Do to Your Brain - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - URL: https://jonn.substack.com/p/what-cars-did-to-your-city-ai-will - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > It feels to me like AI might do something similar for the human brain. The sort of stuff I write – factual but intended to entertain, rather than just inform – requires reading lots of stuff and seeing what grabs me. Sure, I can ask an AI to give me a bunch of facts about [insert topic here] – but it won’t spot the striking coincidence, the funny detail, the historical anecdote I never knew was there but which I suddenly realise is the framing device for my entire story. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k2w4rtk5azeaz2kmf9ecb9x3))