Existing scholarship outlines two broad categories of decision-making:

#1 - fast, intuitive, and affective (emotional) processing

#2 - slow, deliberative, and analytical reasoning

Scholars now see a third system - uncritical outsourcing to AI.

#AI

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Ars Technica
@mimarek Hold on, gonna ask AI to interpret for me