Despite the results, though, the researchers point out that “cognitive surrender is not inherently irrational.” While relying on an LLM that’s wrong half the time (as in these experiments) has obvious downsides, a “statistically superior system” could plausibly give better-than-human results in domains such as “probabilistic settings, risk assessment, or extensive data,” the researchers…

Urgency without direction is eating the industry alive.

Every time someone involved in the process decides to “just AI it,” the chain of provenance breaks. Instead of building a mental model in manageable increments, we are now asked to absorb massive chunks of output being flung our way all at once.

Artifacts that don’t exist on the fidelity cascade (such as power maps) are the only…

A new study by researchers at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) introduces the concept of “cognitive surrender,” our tendency to adopt AI outputs with “minimal scrutiny,” overriding “both intuition and deliberation.” I’ve read it, and the findings, although unsurprising, are still quite scary.

The paper is called “Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human…