Lucy Gill-Simmen, associate dean at Royal Holloway, University of London, warns that reliance on AI in education could stunt critical thinking and lead to 'cognitive surrender' and 'epistemic atrophy.…
Professor Lucy Gill-Simmen of Royal Holloway, University of London warns that AI's greatest danger is not its inaccuracies but its potential to make people stop thinking critically, leading to "episte…
Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio describes how AI agents she built to run her company made her three times more productive, but her daughter Sofia Frei, a Dartmouth student, warns of the technology's unreg…
Wharton researchers Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe people's tendency to defer to AI even when it's wrong, finding that participants accepted incorrect AI answers …
A new study from the Wharton School at UPenn introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where AI users accept AI-generated answers without independent verification. In experiments with 1,372 participants, 73% …
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…