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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 flattens people into the features it can measure, and it nudges people to edit themse…
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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to r…
Research · Human Capacity
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 ver…
Editorial · Learning
UC Berkeley computer science courses had elevated failure rates in spring 2026, with CS 10 at 35.3 percent F grades and CS 61A at 10.6 perc…
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Reviews the research on when and why people trust AI. Two flavors of trust matter and they shift independently: trust because the AI seems …
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Looked at when people are willing to let AI decide for them. People hand over routine, low-stakes tasks readily, but want to stay in the lo…
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…
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