Rahul

Engineer & Data Scientist | Time Series 📈 | Anomaly Detection ፨ | R in Production 📦 |

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: “AI writes, humans review” model is breaking down

Why "just review the AI output" doesn't work anymore, our brains literally give up.

We have started doing "Cognitive Surrender" to AI - Wharton’s latest AI study points to a hard truth: reviewing AI output is not a reliable safeguard when cognition itself starts to defer to the machine.when you stop verifying what the AI tells you, and you don't even realize you stopped. It's different from offloading, like using a calculator.

With offloading you know the tool did the work. With surrender, your brain recodes the AI's answer as YOUR judgment. You genuinely believe you thought it through yourself.

Says AI is becoming a 3rd thinking system, and people often trust it too easily.

You know Kahneman's System 1 (fast intuition) and System 2 (slow analysis)? They're saying AI is now System 3, an external cognitive system that operates outside your brain. And when you use it enough, something happens that they call Cognitive Surrender.

Cognitive surrender is trickier: AI gives an answer, you stop really questioning it, and your brain starts treating that output as your own conclusion. It does not feel outsourced. It feels self-generated.

The data makes it hard to brush off. Across 3 preregistered studies with 1,372 participants and 9,593 trials, people turned to AI on over 50% of questions.

In Study 1, when AI was correct, people followed it 92.7% of the time. When it was wrong, they still followed it 79.8% of the time.

Without AI, baseline accuracy was 45.8%. With correct AI, it jumped to 71.0%. With incorrect AI, it dropped to 31.5%, worse than having no AI. Access to AI also boosted confidence by 11.7 percentage points, even when the answers were wrong.

Human review is supposed to be the safety net. But this research suggests the safety net has a hole in it: people do not just miss bad AI output; they become more confident in it.

Time pressure did not eliminate the effect. Incentives and feedback reduced it but did not remove it. And the people most resistant tended to score higher on fluid intelligence and need for cognition. That makes this feel less like a laziness problem and more like a cognitive architecture problem.

[Vidya Nagaraj @vee22n]

When we lived in Japan, I had invited a few friends for Navaratri. I had kept a small Golu. They were amazed at how similar golu was to Hina matsuri.

Some ladies showed up in their traditional best, Japanese and Korean.

I gave haldi kumkum & a traditional south Indian lunch.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Today, I'm excited to launch my lifelong passion project, Grand Old Books!! 🚀

There are 1000s of beautiful novels of the past, not in English, locked up in old PDFs, with no physical copies left. We started with Indian texts and brought back 12 books in 6 languages with pictures and annotations.

This is, and will always be, completely free.

We can't let time wash away history.

Please comment to let me know what book you'd like to see added.

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@deedydas Wow this is amazing 👏 👏

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@Jacobsklug @openclaw @Lovable OS

[James Blunt @JBlunt1018]

I am DISGUSTED.

A hardworking Indian American was BEHEADED in front of his wife and child.

WHY didn’t this get even 5 MINS of prime-time coverage? If this isn’t a national story, what is?

This man’s HEAD was cut off — and the killer casually PICKED IT UP. How is this not front-page news everywhere?

Lately, I’ve seen an alarming rise in hate toward Indians and Indian Americans online. Are we just going to ignore it until it escalates again?

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

https://t.co/FgImwkboVt

I request everyone to please do whatever you can to support Chandra’s family.

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

This is a fundraiser for Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah, who was brutally murdered in Dallas. I made a small contribution. Please donate if you can. Please spread this among your Indian American circles. https://t.co/BYh1UbhPFj

[CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) @CoHNAOfficial]

Horrific! [warning: graphic video]

A 50 year old Hindu man was beheaded at a motel in Dallas yesterday.

The rise in Hinduphobia and crimes targeting the Indian American community in Texas is deeply troubling - from a racist rant outside a restaurant, to videos targeting Hindu celebrations, and a stabbing a 15-year old in Frisco, among others.

We urge the community to be vigilant and NOT stay silent. We must demand justice and accountability from elected officials and law enforcement to ensure our civil rights are protected.

Let’s stand strong against hate. This barbaric act must be vehemently condemned by all.

[CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) @CoHNAOfficial]

We are shocked and horrified at the murder of Charlie Kirk today. We live in a country where the First Amendment protects each individual’s right to free speech. Differences of opinion and disagreements are a given in any democratic society and should be solved with dialogue, speech, activism and political engagement. There is NO room for such hate and violence and it must be condemned at all levels.

We hope that justice is swiftly served and the perpetrator is held accountable. We offer our prayers and our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
https://t.co/nfCgGSlTKA

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@SciPyConf will the tutorials and/or the talks be recorded and posted online after the conference?

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@AJamesMcCarthy Stunning!!!

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@ARanganathan72 🙏🏼 🙏🏼

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

India, India! India, India! 🇮🇳

[Rahul @_yhat_]

Daylight robbery by @ANI https://t.co/YrfexvUvQJ

[Rahul @_yhat_]

@AnnaGorisch Anna , just learnt about you. +1 follower. Thanks for everything you do ❤️

[Anurag Mairal @mairal]

THIS is what I have been worried about. Our school and college curricula in liberal arts/history follow the same sort of materials that Equality Labs uses for corporate training on Caste-focused DEI.

We are essentially starting to create perceptions of bias when none exist in the minds of school and collage age students. And then for good measure, double down on such manufactured perceptions in the workforce.

The victims of such an education and training are both people of Indian origin (who will automatically be perceived to be practitioners of caste bias - even when they have no clue of what caste is) and people with no Indian heritage (who would have been taught to perceive the former group as the perpetrators of caste discrimination). I have specific examples that relate to my kids and other kids of Indian heritage.

THIS is why I started to write extensively on @X - to fight this vilification, victimizations, and division of Indian American community.

[CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) @CoHNAOfficial]

No @CNN @hannaxhpark, what you claim to be a “Swastika” is Hitler’s Hakenkreuz (Ha-Ken-Kroytz), a German word that means “hooked cross.” It’s the symbol used by those who peddle hatred, bigotry and antisemitism.

A Swastika (which is a Sanskrit word- not German or English) is a deeply sacred and ancient symbol that continues to be used by close to 2 billion Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Native Americans, and other indigenous traditions. Context and usage matters.

Using “Swastika” to describe a hate symbol only advances misinformation and can accidentally trigger hatred against those who use the Swastika as a sacred symbol.

You can do better.

Check out https://t.co/jfnbLk21IM and https://t.co/my0qJ1tyon for more information.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

I strongly condemn the deliberate attack on a Hindu temple in Canada. Equally appalling are the cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats. Such acts of violence will never weaken India’s resolve. We expect the Canadian government to ensure justice and uphold the rule of law.

[CoHNA Canada @CoHNACanada]

Over a thousand #CanadianHindus have gathered in Brampton to protest against the increasingly brazen attacks on Hindu Temples.

Yesterday, during the sacred #Diwali weekend, Canadian Hindu temples, coast to coast, came under attack. We ask Canada to stop this #Hinduphobia now!

@JustinTrudeau @PierrePoilievre @MaximeBernier @CoHNAOfficial @kushal_mehra @ShawnBinda