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Gave people the same advice twice and asked them to act on it, once labeled 'from an AI' and once labeled 'from a human expert.' The AI version was followed more often, even when following it cost the participant real m…
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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Two lab experiments plus a field study in two graduate programming courses on how AI access affects student learning. On average AI made no…
Research · Human Capacity
Earlier studies disagreed about whether people trust algorithms or avoid them; this paper says both are true, and the choice depends on the…
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
Argues that AI does not just expand what people can do, it also narrows it, in three quiet ways: AI takes over choices and skills, it flatt…
Research · Learning
When students used AI to solve problems they did worse overall, even though they felt good about the work. The gap was sharpest by mindset:…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Tested whether AI advice could nudge people into cutting corners. When AI suggested bending the rules, people went along with it more readi…
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