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Tested whether AI advice could nudge people into cutting corners. When AI suggested bending the rules, people went along with it more readily than when a person made the same suggestion.
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Research · Cognition and Behavior
Reviews early evidence on what ChatGPT does to learning and memory, and warns that leaning on AI in place of thinking weakens both. The aut…
Research · Human Capacity
Studied 5,179 customer-service agents at a Fortune 500 software company that rolled out a generative AI assistant trained on the company's …
Research · Learning
A trial with nearly 1,000 high school math students compared a regular ChatGPT-style tutor to one prompted to safeguard learning. Both impr…
Research · Human Capacity
Measured the carbon cost of training big AI models and found the footprint is large, swings widely with choices the builders make (model si…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Asked the public how they feel about AI making decisions in different fields (medical, legal, news). Trust depends on the field and on whet…
Editorial · Cognition and Behavior
A BBC Future feature pulling together recent studies suggesting that leaning on AI chatbots is linked to weaker critical thinking and weake…
AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Oren Etzioni
AI researcher; founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2); professor emeritus at the University of Washington
The most important thing to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, Nexus
Because of AI and the frictionless relationships people are engaging in online, a lot of young people are losing the ability to endure rejection.
Scott Galloway
Professor of marketing, NYU Stern; host of Prof G and Pivot podcasts; author of The Algebra of Wealth (2024)
We are building technology to replace humans and automate people away. That is not the enterprise of technology. Its purpose throughout history has been to improve human flourishing.
Karen Hao
Journalist; author of Empire of AI (2025); formerly MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, WSJ