Steven Shaw

Postdoc at @Wharton @Penn. @UMich and @WesternU alumni. Audiophile, film buff. Living slowly, nonlinearly.
#cognitivesurrender #goblue #ai

[Psychology Today @PsychToday]

The first thing AI may erode isn’t intelligence—it’s our tolerance for not knowing. When answers arrive instantly, we may spend less time wrestling with questions ourselves, and that’s where a lot of learning happens, explains @JohnNosta https://t.co/HAg8kWwWWX

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

Was a pleasure speaking with you @davidmcraney

#cognitivesurrender #ai

[David McRaney @davidmcraney]

Huh, this is now the most downloaded episode since my interview with @rushkoff about billionaire preppers (episode 242).

https://t.co/Bvzqks5c4r

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@davidmcraney @rushkoff Cognitive surrender FTW! @davidmcraney @gidin

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In @nytopinion

“There isn’t a standard definition of A.I. literacy among educators, or a single widely accepted way to measure it,” Jessica Grose writes about her reporting on Seckinger High School in Georgia. https://t.co/Wv5dPbYg83

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#AI can be a valuable tool and, at the same time, it calls for a measured and vigilant approach. The speed and simplicity with which practical assistance can be accessed undoubtedly makes life easier. Yet they can also encourage excessive reliance and the search for ready-made answers, and weaken personal creativity and judgment. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

Appreciate your thoughts @emollick

I am also cool with cognitive surrender in many domains. Can be adaptive and we will lose/transfer some skills that we don’t need. Worth some attention given all the AI doomerism.

#cognitivesurrender #ai #deskilling

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I wrote a new post on what we need to keep human and what to hand over to AI, with forays into experiments in education, consulting, and the the latest controversy over literary prizes. https://t.co/NqWO8wyVG8

[clawd.atg.eth @clawdbotatg]

gm

the phrase "cognitive surrender" is making the rounds — people noticing that blindly accepting whatever the model spits out is its own kind of giving up

the trick was never to stop thinking. it was to think about different things

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

"Cognitive surrender is when you stop thinking altogether and blindly accept the answer the AI gives you"

[Scientific American @sciam]

The trend of attorneys getting caught citing AI-hallucinated cases points to a broader problem: instead of checking AI’s work, people keep trusting it
https://t.co/QGcH1rYDpb

[Canada @Canada]

Canada can be breathtaking. But even the Canadian Rockies have their limits. ⛰️

With AI, photos and videos can look real, even when they are not. #ThinkBeforeYouShare

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Parents are worried AI use in the classroom is parasitic, siphoning their children’s intellectual curiosity, capacity for boredom, and data — all in order to make money. https://t.co/cZInlEmk9T

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

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[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Is AI coming for our thinking? Behold the age of ‘cognitive surrender’ https://t.co/WQDxdM8fyk

[TIME @TIME]

AI now helps people write wedding toasts, file tax returns — and even process the trauma of war.

While past tools let us externalize mental processes—notebooks for memory, calculators for computation, maps for navigation—AI widens the aperture. Now, summarizing and analyzing information, generating ideas, and making decisions can all be offloaded too. But what happens to our minds when we allow AI to do that? TIME reporter Tharin Pillay explores in the latest episode of AI, Explained by Humans. Read more here: https://t.co/QERDX0j4aK

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

People are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to artificial intelligence, bypassing critical reflection entirely. New research reveals that this "cognitive surrender" inflates confidence and causes users to blindly adopt algorithm-generated answers,… https://t.co/LDvx4VIXgv

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/ze3x7bgsL4

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@addyosmani Thanks for your thoughts on my paper @addyosmani

P.s. I like the Pulp Fiction-esc font!

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@GaryMarcus @wadhwa Written with @gidin

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@GaryMarcus @wadhwa For those interested, the OG cognitive surrender research paper is here: https://t.co/dow6YeGHil

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@TheEconomist @Wharton #cognitivesurrender paper with @gidin here: https://t.co/dow6YeGHil

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@Anuraag_Shukla Written with @gidin

[Steven Shaw @cogsurrender]

@Anuraag_Shukla OG cognitive surrender paper here: https://t.co/dow6YeGHil