Creativity is core to being human. Generative artificial intelligence (AI)—including powerful large language models (LLMs)—holds promise for humans to be more creative by offering new ideas, or less creative by anchoring on generative AI ideas. We study the causal impact of generative AI ideas on the production of short stories in an online experiment where some writers obtained story ideas from an LLM. We find that access to generative AI ideas causes stories to be evaluated as more creative, better written, and more enjoyable, especially among less creative writers. However, generative AI–enabled stories are more similar to each other than stories by humans alone. These results point to an increase in individual creativity at the risk of losing collective novelty. This dynamic resembles a social dilemma: With generative AI, writers are individually better off, but collectively a narrower scope of novel content is produced. Our results have implications for researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners interested in bolstering creativity. <<<

Arun C. Habermann, Austin J. Gutierrez, Linh T. Bui, Stephanie L. Yahn, Nichelle I. Winters, Carla L. Calvi, Lance Peter, Mei-I Chung, Chase J. Taylor, Christopher Jetter, Latha Raju, Jamie Roberson, Guixiao Ding, Lori Wood, Jennifer M. S. Sucre, Bradley W. Richmond, Ana P. Serezani, Wyatt J. McDonnell, Simon B. Mallal, Matthew J. Bacchetta, James E. Loyd, Ciara M. Shaver, Lorraine B. Ware, Ross Bremner, Rajat Walia, Timothy S. Blackwell, Nicholas E. Banovich, Jonathan A. Kropski <<<

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides new insights into pathologic epithelial and mesenchymal remodeling in the human lung. <<<

Elena Beanato, Hyuk-June Moon, Fabienne Windel, Pierre Vassiliadis, Maximillian J. Wessel, Traian Popa, Menoud Pauline, Esra Neufeld, Emanuela De Falco, Baptiste Gauthier, Melanie Steiner, Olaf Blanke, Friedhelm C. Hummel <<<

Because of the depth of the hippocampal-entorhinal complex (HC-EC) in the brain, understanding of its role in spatial navigation via neuromodulation was limited in humans. Here, we aimed to better elucidate this relationship in healthy volunteers, using transcranial temporal interference electric stimulation (tTIS), a noninvasive technique allowing to selectively neuromodulate deep brain structures. We applied tTIS to the right HC-EC in either continuous or intermittent theta-burst stimulation patterns (cTBS or iTBS), compared to a control condition, during a virtual reality–based spatial navigation task and concomitant functional magnetic resonance imaging. iTBS improved spatial navigation performance, correlated with hippocampal activity modulation, and decreased grid cell–like activity in EC. Collectively, these data provide the evidence that human HC-EC activity can be directly and noninvasively modulated leading to changes of spatial navigation behavior. These findings suggest promising perspectives for patients suffering from cognitive impairment such as following traumatic brain injury or dementia. <<<