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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
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 · Human Capacity
Three preregistered experiments (N = 1,372) introducing 'Tri-System Theory' on how people use generative AI when reasoning. Demonstrates 'c…
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 · 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…
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…
Editorial · Human Capacity
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