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Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to real patient care is a separate question the paper flags but does not answer.
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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…
Research · Human Capacity
Three preregistered experiments (N = 1,372) introducing 'Tri-System Theory' on how people use generative AI when reasoning. Demonstrates 'c…
Research · Learning
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 · Cognition and Behavior
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:…
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…
Editorial · Learning
Princeton's faculty voted to require proctoring for all in-person examinations beginning July 1, 2026, reversing a 133-year-old honor syste…
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