AI & Cognitive Offloading
Articles on how external memory tools — calendars, photos, social media, and AI assistants — reshape human memory, cognition, and skill development, including the risks of cognitive offloading and transactive memory dynamics.
Everyone Overestimates AI Performance: The Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect
A new study reveals that all AI users, regardless of skill level, overestimate their performance when interacting with tools like ChatGPT, reversing the classic Dunning-Kruger effect where lesser-skilled users typically overestimate more.
Why We Trust ChatGPT for Advice — and What We Lose When It Always Agrees With Us
An exploration of AI sycophancy, cognitive reinforcement, and the erosion of self-challenge when we rely on AI that never contradicts our beliefs — and how human relationships uniquely provide the friction necessary for growth.
The Internal Upgrade: Recalibrating Attention and Value in the Age of Algorithmic Care
Why the next boundary of tech progress is cognitive, not technical: cultivating prosocial AI requires a shift in how we direct attention and define value.