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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.

😍baby, Phillip Michael Thomas at 76 years old, looks like all his karmic debt has been paid in full! 🦩🩵🩷 ✨

It may not be "mama's lemon pound cake," but Taste of Belgium announced it will host "Lemon Poundcake Waffle Day" at its Rookwood and The Banks locations on March 25, offering free waffles in honor of Afroman's trial win. bit.ly/4d52R79

The story just got worse & worse omg we would be FIGHTING

After the breakup of the USSR, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn’t afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team’s expenses and sent a box of tie-dyed outfits in Lithuania’s national colors. They went on to win Bronze at the Olympics.

@DarnellTheGeek @LePapillonBlu2 I came here to ask this very question. 😂

@LePapillonBlu2 Are capybaras supposed to be roaming wild in Florida?

Meanwhile in Floriduh 🤣

Americans shouldn’t have to see data centers on their electricity bill wapo.st/3PsuBZs

Supreme Court says police officer is immune from misconduct claim by protester washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

@metroadlib I have so many questions.

you can literally tell me anything happened in la plata and I will believe it.

@LenValyrian In the 2010’s? 😂

5th grader: yeah this is for the real old school ppl who had big box computers in the 2010s

@ChristofHart I switched to an EV in 2022, but the cost of energy is going to start eating into the benefits of that too.

@LadyBugAssassin Precisely 👍 I do think govts. have mishandled both our resources, and reserves (or lack of), and this will reset priorities. Im a mechanic, and I do feel we are very spoiled with our car culture here. I wouldnt be opposed to smaller engine mandates.

You can skip buying Starbucks when it gets to a price point you don’t want to or can’t pay. Now think about has gas is different especially if you live in an area without public transit options.

Report: Ashburn residents being offered $4M per acre to sell to data center developers insidenova.com/news/loudoun/r…

@TheBaddestMitch Her blood sugar was low.

Girl be fr

@creole_pisces22 I am mortified. 😂

I don’t think I’ll ever recover from seeing this and knowing this happened for real

@BuddyNoLove Let’s go!

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Been reporting for years (!) now on a housing scam that targeted foreign investors & distressed Baltimore neighborhoods; new evidence shows how company faked email addresses, forged signatures, falsified wire transactions and faked deeds thebanner.com/community/crim…

@ChristofHart These prices keep going up and it will be very clear what people absolutely have to consume and what they don’t.

@LadyBugAssassin Consumerism is the problem. It’s a disease that blurs the lines between needs & wants.