Steven Shaw
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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But if you are careful about how you manage that data and prompt system three, let's say, you can extend your line of reasoning with augmented data analysis, let's say.
Well, that's a tough question to answer, how many?
But I think what the key is, is that right now with the way that AI is designed, right, it's sycophantic and it's fluent.
It'll give you answers that are confident to just about any kind of question that you ask it.
With the technology that's available 24-7 like that, there are going to be students who
some non-zero percentage of students who will engage in cognitive surrender just because it's available and it's easy to do and they could spend their time doing something else.
Yeah, I mean, we don't necessarily need to be scared of cognitive surrender.
You use the word reshape.
I like that word reshape a lot, right?
We're entering a new era of thinking and decision-making, and System 3 is part of that, right?
And so we have to have the right vocabulary to discuss issues, and we have to understand the risks involved with cognitive surrender.
But there are both risks involved.
and opportunities of engaging in cognitive surrender.
And so it's becoming more and more clear that our cognitive capabilities are changing and we may de-skill ourselves in certain areas or never skill in certain areas, but hopefully we can also gain some of these opportunities and adapt and augment our thinking as well.
Certainly, you know, in a student or a learning context, if you want to learn something and you want to become better at it, or if you want to gain a skill, if you're engaging in cognitive surrender during the learning process or while you're gaining that skill, right, you're not the one learning.
The AI is learning and the AI is, you know, doing that skill.
So you won't
learn those things or develop that skill and there's a growing body of research i would say particularly in the education space there's some wharton colleagues of mine for example that look at high school students and you know in in those studies when participants have unaided high school students have unaided access to ai their performance goes up they look quite good on paper they get
better grades or do better on these math problems than the students who don't have access to AI.
But when you then take away AI, take away System 3 later and test those two groups, the individuals who relied and had access to AI perform actually much worse than the brain-only condition because they didn't actually learn anything.
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