There is no real scientific evidence that using AI has a real negative impact on your brain. Like, there literally can’t be - it only became really available in the last few years. Science doesnt work that fast.

And if there is any kind of “brainrot”, it is likely not AI-specific, but is rather related more generally to overuse of tech. 10 years ago, was it “brainrot” to search for an answer to a question on google instead of sitting down and thinking about it real hard and maybe looking it up in an encyclopedia? Maybe. But I would say the issue isn’t really the use of a piece of tech, but the development of a reliance on it, or the formation of a unhealthy habit.

Do you generally have a hard time coming up with answers to your problems? Or paying attention for long periods of time? Well, maybe reading could help you with that. But I doubt reading about socialism will help any more than reading something else that is intellectually challenging. And if you are currently reading nothing long form, you would probably get 90% of the benefits by reading some fun, rompy fiction that you will probably enjoy (and actually keep doing), rather than grinding through page after page of run-on sentences written by a 19th century philosopher.