"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds 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
@ketan Suppression into ignorant subservience, serving the ultimate abusers at the top 1%.
@ketan what's interesting about the paper (having read the abstract and the conclusions, and skimmed the methodology) is that they're *very* keen to insist that they're not being *negative* about cognitive surrender, merely noting that it exists. The question is: why would you not be negative about it? What can we say about the authors that they feel the need to hedge ethically on this observed phenomenon?
@ketan
i&i would say
"cognitive surrender" leads AI *leaders AND users* to abandon logical thinking" `w;7[)
#prpXprpgnd

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gusseting/116360107497873443

@ketan
""Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds"
How interesting, @greenpeace
Perhaps you'd like to reconsider using AI?
#greenpeace #Ai #climate #Australia

@ketan fascinating. But now I have to go figure out what “Fluid IQ” is, because that seems important. I’m pretty skeptical of anything that uses “IQ” in its name, but I don’t want to jump to conclusions.