---
id: "quote-ai-left-brain"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["01:57:30"]
tags: ["neuroscience", "ai-role"]
related: ["concept-hemispheric-lateralization", "claim-ai-left-brain"]
speaker: "Arthur Brooks"
quote: "AI is an assistant to your left hemisphere, not your right hemisphere."
---
# AI is an assistant to your left hemisphere.

> "AI is an assistant to your left hemisphere, not your right hemisphere."
> — [[entity-arthur-brooks|Arthur Brooks]]

## Context

[[entity-arthur-brooks|Arthur Brooks]] defining the proper scope of Artificial Intelligence. By categorizing AI as a left-brain tool — suited for logic, analysis, and efficiency — he clarifies that it should **not** be relied upon for right-brain functions like empathy, meaning, or love.

## See Also

- [[concept-hemispheric-lateralization]]
- [[claim-ai-left-brain]]
- [[framework-right-brain-exercise]] — what the right hemisphere needs instead.