linkedin.com · via John Cutler
Sycophancy as the everyday face of cognitive surrender — when the model mirrors you, the verification step quietly disappears. A practical tell for when you've stopped thinking.
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microsoft.com · via Microsoft Research
319 knowledge workers — the more they trusted the AI, the less critical thinking they did. The empirical anchor for why agency has to be designed in, not assumed.
roughtype.com · via Nicholas Carr
The sharpest critic's case: automation dependence quietly erodes the very competence it was meant to support. Worth steelmanning.
AI-only planning caught 0% of novel risks; human+AI review caught 86.7%. Concrete evidence that collaborative verification beats solo AI.