A Psychology Today article warns that reliance on generative AI erodes human skills through 'agency decay,' citing a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint that found weaker neural connectivity in participants w…
A nonprofit called Current AI, backed by France, DeepMind, Salesforce, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations with over $400 million in commitments, launched at France's AI Action Summit in early 2025…
A February 2026 study by MIT's Center for Constructive Communication found that three leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus, and Meta's Llama 3—deliver significantly worse answ…
A study by MIT Media Lab found that users relying on ChatGPT as a primary drafting tool showed 47% reduced neural connectivity compared to those who wrote without AI assistance, a phenomenon called co…
Anthropic launched Reflect, a beta dashboard for its Claude chatbot that tracks usage patterns and suggests breaks, aiming to promote thoughtful AI use rather than maximizing screen time. The feature,…
Anthropic launched a beta feature called 'reflect' on July 9, giving Claude users detailed analytics of their chatbot interactions over customizable time periods. The dashboard shows topics, task type…
Anthropic launched a beta feature called 'Reflection' for its AI chatbot Claude, providing users with a visual dashboard to track usage patterns, optimize workflows, and set break reminders. The tool,…
Anthropic introduced a beta feature for Claude that lets users track and visualize their AI usage patterns, set quiet hours, and build AI skills through a reflection dashboard. The tool, developed wit…
Engineers face 'cognitive debt' as AI tools write code they don't fully understand, warned by a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint. A developer recounts two debugging sessions on the same Android codebase: o…
A study by MIT Media Lab researchers found that participants who used AI assistance to detect fake news became 21% more accurate while using the tool, but their unassisted accuracy declined by 15.3% a…
Kevin Kelly predicts that most people will soon carry an always-on AI agent that knows them better than they know themselves, acting as an 'exoself' that extends their mind and capabilities. This tech…
AI systems are increasingly being used to detect human emotions in workplaces, call centers, and companion apps, but current models often fail to capture nuanced, contextual emotional states. Research…
A new term from Harvard Business Review, 'workslop,' describes the feedback loop where AI-generated content with subtle errors accumulates in enterprise knowledge bases, corrupting institutional recor…
Harvard Business Review warns that AI-generated low-quality work, termed 'workslop', is causing 'knowledge decay' in companies, eroding trust and costing $9 million annually in rework for a 10,000-emp…
Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming warns that outsourcing thinking to AI could weaken cognitive reserve, the brain's defense against dementia, especially in young people. She compares AI chatbots to GPS, ci…
Anthropic researchers found that junior developers using AI assistants scored 50% on a comprehension quiz versus 67% for those working without AI, a gap termed 'cognitive debt.' Studies from METR, MIT…
Three new research papers provide converging evidence that AI use can degrade human cognitive skills through a phenomenon researchers call "cognitive surrender," where users adopt AI outputs without s…
Indian IT giants TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra are positioning themselves to solve the AI deployment crisis facing U.S. companies, where 95% of generative AI pilots fail due to poor integrati…