AI & the Mind
How using AI changes thinking, skill, memory, judgement and mood. What the evidence shows about cognition and mental health when a machine does part of the mental work.
Can you trust an AI summary? What audits of chatbot summaries keep finding
You probably read several AI summaries today without deciding to. One sat above your search results. Another condensed a long email thread. A third turned a…
Can an AI chatbot actually do therapy? What the trials show
This article looks at the research evidence. It is not personal mental health advice. If you are struggling right now, skip to the section on getting…
Does Using AI Make You Worse at Thinking?
Fifty-four people, one EEG study, and a headline that ran everywhere. What that study can and cannot show, and the retraction that reshaped the counter-evidence.
Can a chatbot change your mind? What the AI persuasion studies found
Most worry about AI and belief has focused on sycophancy (the model agreeing with you) and over-trust (you agreeing with the model without checking). A third…
Emotional reliance on AI: what happens when your chatbot changes or goes offline
Emotional reliance on AI chatbots is real, measurable in ordinary users, and rises with how much people use them. Whether it harms wellbeing is a different…
Does Letting Siri AI Draft Your Writing Cost You Anything?
Siri AI can now draft an email or a message for you from scratch, and the honest cost of letting it is not that you forget…
Is “AI Psychosis” Real? What the Evidence Shows
The term is a media label. The pattern behind it is now in case series and health records, concentrated in people who were already vulnerable, and…
Cognitive Offloading and AI: Why Your Confidence Outruns Your Code
The popular story is that AI makes you dumber. The evidence supports something narrower and more useful: offloading judgement to an automated aid miscalibrates your confidence…
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