*It turns out that "Artificial Intelligence" is an *inherently hallucinatory technology,* and that's not the dismissive summary, that is the *initial premise* #ZeroGravityMindset #cognitivedebt #bubble
February 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
*It turns out that "Artificial Intelligence" is an *inherently hallucinatory technology,* and that's not the dismissive summary, that is the *initial premise* #ZeroGravityMindset #cognitivedebt #bubble
May 14, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Brill - tagging for #cognitivedebt :)
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Brill - tagging for #cognitivedebt :)
Os alunos que mais usam ChatGPT para escrever são também os que, minutos depois, não conseguem citar uma frase do que escreveram.
Estas são as conclusões de vários estudos sobre o uso de LLMs nas escolas. Chamam-lhe "dívida cognitiva".
#Educação #CognitiveDebt #InteligênciaArtificial #IA #AI
Estas são as conclusões de vários estudos sobre o uso de LLMs nas escolas. Chamam-lhe "dívida cognitiva".
#Educação #CognitiveDebt #InteligênciaArtificial #IA #AI
Inteligência artificial ou estupidez real?
Os estudantes que usam IA para escrever não conseguem, depois, citar uma única frase do que escreveram.
open.substack.com
June 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Os alunos que mais usam ChatGPT para escrever são também os que, minutos depois, não conseguem citar uma frase do que escreveram.
Estas são as conclusões de vários estudos sobre o uso de LLMs nas escolas. Chamam-lhe "dívida cognitiva".
#Educação #CognitiveDebt #InteligênciaArtificial #IA #AI
Estas são as conclusões de vários estudos sobre o uso de LLMs nas escolas. Chamam-lhe "dívida cognitiva".
#Educação #CognitiveDebt #InteligênciaArtificial #IA #AI
That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
smithery.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 AM
That #r4today interview just now was as clear a demonstration of the social impacts of #cognitivedebt as you might ever want.
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Adds to favourite #cognitivedebt examples…
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
www.reddit.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Adds to favourite #cognitivedebt examples…
My latest piece unpacks cognitive offloading vs. cognitive debt. davidpblross.substack.com/p/will-overu... #Education #AI #CognitiveDebt #TeachingTools #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #artificialintelligence
Will Overuse of AI Cause Cognitive Debt for Learners?
Educators have warned for decades that calculators, spellcheck, and Google would erode student thinking. Now, AI brings a new twist: cognitive debt.My new post explores why cognitive offloading (using...
davidpblross.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My latest piece unpacks cognitive offloading vs. cognitive debt. davidpblross.substack.com/p/will-overu... #Education #AI #CognitiveDebt #TeachingTools #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #artificialintelligence
Cognitive Debt and Its Link to #Disability - Explores the concept of #CognitiveDebt a term used in clinical #neuroscience and #technology research to describe how certain mental habits and behavioral patterns can quietly erode #cognitive capacity over time - www.disabled-world.com/disability/p...
Cognitive Debt and Its Link to Disability
Cognitive debt describes how negative thinking and AI over-reliance can erode mental capacity, with key implications for disability.
www.disabled-world.com
March 21, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Cognitive Debt and Its Link to #Disability - Explores the concept of #CognitiveDebt a term used in clinical #neuroscience and #technology research to describe how certain mental habits and behavioral patterns can quietly erode #cognitive capacity over time - www.disabled-world.com/disability/p...
Because she came out of the womb using a calculator… 👀 LOL #cognitivedebt
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Because she came out of the womb using a calculator… 👀 LOL #cognitivedebt
Part two of a three part series of the Artefacts newsletter - what does an LLM look like, and how does that help us think about how we use them?
buttondown.com/artefacts/ar...
#cognitivedebt #ai #llm
buttondown.com/artefacts/ar...
#cognitivedebt #ai #llm
August 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Part two of a three part series of the Artefacts newsletter - what does an LLM look like, and how does that help us think about how we use them?
buttondown.com/artefacts/ar...
#cognitivedebt #ai #llm
buttondown.com/artefacts/ar...
#cognitivedebt #ai #llm
More #cognitivedebt - points for doubling down on using ChatGPT to confirm that the case it hallucinated ‘actually exists’…
Barrister cites fictitious case (from ChatGPT). When challenged by Tribunal, uses ChatGPT to confirm the case exists. This does not go well.
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/2025-u...
Tribunal decisions
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
More #cognitivedebt - points for doubling down on using ChatGPT to confirm that the case it hallucinated ‘actually exists’…
🤖 Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task /// arXiv
> Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns ab... https://tiv.today/2025/06/cognitivedebt
> Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns ab... https://tiv.today/2025/06/cognitivedebt
June 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
🤖 Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task /// arXiv
> Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns ab... https://tiv.today/2025/06/cognitivedebt
> Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns ab... https://tiv.today/2025/06/cognitivedebt
New study: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
#KI #Texte #Schreiben #bluelz #cognitivedebt
@thorstn.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
#KI #Texte #Schreiben #bluelz #cognitivedebt
@thorstn.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New study: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
#KI #Texte #Schreiben #bluelz #cognitivedebt
@thorstn.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
#KI #Texte #Schreiben #bluelz #cognitivedebt
@thorstn.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Saw @tomchatfield.bsky.social last week, and he gave me a sneak peek at his forthcoming book ‘How To Think Clearly’, where he’d pointed to my #cognitivedebt coinage from earlier this year.
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
smithery.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Saw @tomchatfield.bsky.social last week, and he gave me a sneak peek at his forthcoming book ‘How To Think Clearly’, where he’d pointed to my #cognitivedebt coinage from earlier this year.
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
Your Brain on Autopilot: How AI Turns Busybrains into Cozybrains (and What to Do About It)
READ MORE HERE: dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2025/11/your...
#YourBrainOnAI #CognitiveDebt #ChatGPT #MITMediaLab #ThinkFirstThenAsk #EdTechConcerns #NeuralPlasticity #ProductivityVsWisdom #PromptResponsibly
READ MORE HERE: dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2025/11/your...
#YourBrainOnAI #CognitiveDebt #ChatGPT #MITMediaLab #ThinkFirstThenAsk #EdTechConcerns #NeuralPlasticity #ProductivityVsWisdom #PromptResponsibly
November 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Your Brain on Autopilot: How AI Turns Busybrains into Cozybrains (and What to Do About It)
READ MORE HERE: dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2025/11/your...
#YourBrainOnAI #CognitiveDebt #ChatGPT #MITMediaLab #ThinkFirstThenAsk #EdTechConcerns #NeuralPlasticity #ProductivityVsWisdom #PromptResponsibly
READ MORE HERE: dammedifyoudont.blogspot.com/2025/11/your...
#YourBrainOnAI #CognitiveDebt #ChatGPT #MITMediaLab #ThinkFirstThenAsk #EdTechConcerns #NeuralPlasticity #ProductivityVsWisdom #PromptResponsibly
@alastor8472.bsky.social
thank you. That is an excellent article about #claude and #cognitivedebt. I am surprised that more people are not talking about this and no one is talking about the solution to this.
thank you. That is an excellent article about #claude and #cognitivedebt. I am surprised that more people are not talking about this and no one is talking about the solution to this.
April 16, 2026 at 9:24 AM
@alastor8472.bsky.social
thank you. That is an excellent article about #claude and #cognitivedebt. I am surprised that more people are not talking about this and no one is talking about the solution to this.
thank you. That is an excellent article about #claude and #cognitivedebt. I am surprised that more people are not talking about this and no one is talking about the solution to this.
Super useful a have been collecting #cognitivedebt examples for an update on the below, from all kinds of fields but coding particularly good to pay attention to - like speedrunning the social effects we’ll maybe see elsewhere
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
smithery.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Super useful a have been collecting #cognitivedebt examples for an update on the below, from all kinds of fields but coding particularly good to pay attention to - like speedrunning the social effects we’ll maybe see elsewhere
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
smithery.com/methods/cogn...
Upper Echelon: "Buying 'Intelligence' on a Meter" | #BigTech #Technology #CognitiveDecline #DrJaredCooneyHorvat #ReverseFlynnEffect #Screens #SocialMedia #AIslop #ChatGPT #Chatbots #CognitiveDebt #TechnologyDependence #CriticalThinking #NoCreativity #PassiveWorkers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRF_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRF_...
Intelligence as a Commodity...
YouTube video by Upper Echelon
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Upper Echelon: "Buying 'Intelligence' on a Meter" | #BigTech #Technology #CognitiveDecline #DrJaredCooneyHorvat #ReverseFlynnEffect #Screens #SocialMedia #AIslop #ChatGPT #Chatbots #CognitiveDebt #TechnologyDependence #CriticalThinking #NoCreativity #PassiveWorkers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRF_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRF_...
#Development #Explorations
From technical debt to cognitive debt · “Velocity without understanding is not sustainable.” ilo.im/16anlc by Margaret-Anne Storey
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#Programming #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt #TechDebt #Terminology #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
From technical debt to cognitive debt · “Velocity without understanding is not sustainable.” ilo.im/16anlc by Margaret-Anne Storey
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#Programming #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt #TechDebt #Terminology #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...
ilo.im
February 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
#Development #Explorations
From technical debt to cognitive debt · “Velocity without understanding is not sustainable.” ilo.im/16anlc by Margaret-Anne Storey
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#Programming #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt #TechDebt #Terminology #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
From technical debt to cognitive debt · “Velocity without understanding is not sustainable.” ilo.im/16anlc by Margaret-Anne Storey
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#Programming #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt #TechDebt #Terminology #WebDev #Frontend #Backend
MIT’s latest study raises a red flag: Relying on ChatGPT may lower brain activity & critical thinking.
The researchers call it “Cognitive Debt.”
Are we gaining convenience but losing our minds?
#CognitiveDebt #AIandThinking #ChatGPT #MITAIStudy
The researchers call it “Cognitive Debt.”
Are we gaining convenience but losing our minds?
#CognitiveDebt #AIandThinking #ChatGPT #MITAIStudy
June 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
MIT’s latest study raises a red flag: Relying on ChatGPT may lower brain activity & critical thinking.
The researchers call it “Cognitive Debt.”
Are we gaining convenience but losing our minds?
#CognitiveDebt #AIandThinking #ChatGPT #MITAIStudy
The researchers call it “Cognitive Debt.”
Are we gaining convenience but losing our minds?
#CognitiveDebt #AIandThinking #ChatGPT #MITAIStudy
Cognitive Debt: the hidden cost to AI reliance nobody is measuring. Damage to attention, learning & mental health from over-reliance. MIT: 55% less brain connectivity, 83% memory loss. Building this into default without asking if we should. 👉️ bit.ly/4sbZA9P #CognitiveDebt #AIEthics #Neuroscience
Cognitive Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI Reliance Nobody Is Measuring
There's a hidden cost to AI reliance that nobody is measuring yet. Dr David Ruttenberg introduces Cognitive Debt — the accumulated neurological toll on attention, learning, and mental health from…
www.davidruttenberg.com
April 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Cognitive Debt: the hidden cost to AI reliance nobody is measuring. Damage to attention, learning & mental health from over-reliance. MIT: 55% less brain connectivity, 83% memory loss. Building this into default without asking if we should. 👉️ bit.ly/4sbZA9P #CognitiveDebt #AIEthics #Neuroscience
A different take on cognitive debt and such …
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
#AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
#AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A different take on cognitive debt and such …
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
#AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
#AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking
4.
OP geht's nebenbei darum,sich als Experte eines Tools anzubieten oder Leute in den eigenen oberflächlichen Sumpf zu ziehen.
Dazu dieses ganz frische Paper von MIT-Forschenden zu #CognitiveDebt #Downskilling durch Einbindung von LLMs in eigene Denkprozesse
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
OP geht's nebenbei darum,sich als Experte eines Tools anzubieten oder Leute in den eigenen oberflächlichen Sumpf zu ziehen.
Dazu dieses ganz frische Paper von MIT-Forschenden zu #CognitiveDebt #Downskilling durch Einbindung von LLMs in eigene Denkprozesse
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
arxiv.org
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
4.
OP geht's nebenbei darum,sich als Experte eines Tools anzubieten oder Leute in den eigenen oberflächlichen Sumpf zu ziehen.
Dazu dieses ganz frische Paper von MIT-Forschenden zu #CognitiveDebt #Downskilling durch Einbindung von LLMs in eigene Denkprozesse
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
OP geht's nebenbei darum,sich als Experte eines Tools anzubieten oder Leute in den eigenen oberflächlichen Sumpf zu ziehen.
Dazu dieses ganz frische Paper von MIT-Forschenden zu #CognitiveDebt #Downskilling durch Einbindung von LLMs in eigene Denkprozesse
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
Widzę efekty używania AI w robocie - pracuję z ludźmi którzy zaczęli pracę w obecnym projekcie rok temu.
Mają wiedzę o systemach, zależnościach etc. jak by zaczęli wczoraj, bo wszystko robią z użyciem AI i prawie nic nie zapamiętują. Ale tak kompletnie nic.
#ComprehensionDebt #CognitiveDebt
Mają wiedzę o systemach, zależnościach etc. jak by zaczęli wczoraj, bo wszystko robią z użyciem AI i prawie nic nie zapamiętują. Ale tak kompletnie nic.
#ComprehensionDebt #CognitiveDebt
August 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Widzę efekty używania AI w robocie - pracuję z ludźmi którzy zaczęli pracę w obecnym projekcie rok temu.
Mają wiedzę o systemach, zależnościach etc. jak by zaczęli wczoraj, bo wszystko robią z użyciem AI i prawie nic nie zapamiętują. Ale tak kompletnie nic.
#ComprehensionDebt #CognitiveDebt
Mają wiedzę o systemach, zależnościach etc. jak by zaczęli wczoraj, bo wszystko robią z użyciem AI i prawie nic nie zapamiętują. Ale tak kompletnie nic.
#ComprehensionDebt #CognitiveDebt