Steven Shaw

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ABC News Daily · Is AI changing how we think? · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's the same CRT task.

And what we saw is a lot of participants used the AI during the task over 50% of the time.

And what participants didn't know is that we manipulated experimentally whether or not ChachiBT would give them the correct or the incorrect answer.

if they consulted AI about that specific question.

So that allowed us to see, you know, how much participants were relying on AI to get their answers.

And what we saw is that even when AI was giving them incorrect information, the participants were adopting those answers and then taking them on as their own and submitting them.

Yeah, yeah, and that number's from experiment one, yeah.

Basically, you know, once participants chose to go to the chat, consult AI, they were quite likely to adopt the information from AI and take that answer regardless of whether it was correct or incorrect.

Yeah, so we coined the term cognitive surrender, and it's the adoption of AI outputs without verification.

So following what AI gives you or tells you what to do without sort of thinking about it very much or giving it much scrutiny.

Exactly.

I mean, that's the question is, I mean, if you're adopting or just doing what ChatGPT tells you, you know, where is the work being done?

Where is the thinking being done?

And that's part of sort of the theoretical contribution of our paper is to talk about how that, you know, locus of control, the agency is being transferred over to AI in the case of cognitive surrender.

Yeah.

So this is the sort of classic dual process theory.

There's several theories of reasoning, but most famously is by Daniel Kahneman, right?

And you've got thinking fast and slow.

And so, as you mentioned, there's sort of system one, which is fast and intuitive.

That's that first answer or action that might come to mind when you're

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