— Field dispatch —
News, research, and voices from the field.
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Reviews the research on when and why people trust AI. Two flavors of trust matter and they shift independently: trust because the AI seems competent at the task, and trust because it feels warm or relatable to deal with.
— Voice from the field —
AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.
Research · Cognition and Behavior
Argues that some kinds of thinking only conscious minds do well: paying flexible attention, handling situations no one has ever seen before…
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
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 · Human Capacity
A Nature news feature collecting how scientists across biology, physics, medicine, and social science responded to the release of GPT-4 in …
Research · Cognition and Behavior
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
Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to r…
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