As AI becomes an active participant in our cognitive lives, the line between thought partner and substitute is becoming ...

In any conversation about the cognitive effects of artificial intelligence, these two earlier technologies are reasonably ...

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are ...

Relationship offloading is a new trend that obscures how much more we owe each other than simulation could ever carry.

Only a few years ago, AI seemed like merely a nice toy: a chatbot that simulated intelligence by assembling complete ...

Researchers, including Pattie Maes and Nataliya Kosmyna from MIT, suggest that cognitive offloading—the habit of letting ...

The integration of AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google’s Genesis, and other generative tools has introduced a new dimension of efficiency for security professionals. These systems can summarize threat ...

AI use can speed up many tasks; for example, analyzing complex data. However, using AI to complete a task at work or for a hobby could lead to so-called cognitive offloading. Cognitive offloading ...

Lacking the horns, talons and implements of war afforded to our natural adversaries, we learned to use tools. And then to make them. And so on, through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, Iron, ...

Most people don’t realize these everyday habits are working against their own capacity for brilliance. Here’s how they might ...