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AI assistants and their effect on attention and cognition.
Can an AI Companion Fix Loneliness? What the Trials Actually Show
Two large studies, one randomised, agree on an uncomfortable pattern: the people who use AI companions most are the ones doing worst.
Why AI Tools Can Make You More Tired, Not Less
The promise was a lighter workload. The observed pattern was task expansion, blurred role boundaries and cognitive load, mostly self-imposed.
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.
Does Writing With AI Flatten Your Voice? The Homogenisation Evidence
An experiment where the individual result and the collective result point in opposite directions, and the authors name the structure that produces it.
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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