„Kognitive Kapitulation“ führt laut Forschungsergebnissen dazu, dass KI-Benutzer das logische Denken aufgeben
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
„Kognitive Kapitulation“ führt laut Forschungsergebnissen dazu, dass KI-Benutzer das logische Denken aufgeben
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
26 Kommentare
Hey, careful now! Cognitive surrender forms the foundation of nearly all organized religions.
Hmmm, let me ponder this.
Ah yes, cognitive surrender—or as the rest of us call it, outsourcing Googling because we’re tired. If asking a tool for help is ‘abandoning logic,’ then calculators have been rotting brains since 1972.
Cognitive surrender sounds fancy, but really it’s just the academic way of saying we let the robot do our homework.
Sounds like something AI wrote
Abandon? I think the number of humans that performed logical thinking was way overestimated here
BRB let me google how I feel about this
Depends how you use it. When I’m struggling in bash, or trying to sort out some technical details of a work project it just gets me there faster, but I’m still the one implementing the problem to solution.
humans are lazy who would’ve guessed
And alcoholism leads to cirrhosis of the liver and gambling addiction leads to homelessness, and an enlarged amygdala leads to voting Republican. Growing up in Manhattan leads to generally being a worse driver than someone from LA who was driving the day they turned 15 and a half.
All this means is AI is no more for everyone than a trip to Circus Liquor or Vegas is for everyone, and some people are gonna have nature- or nurture-based advantages or disadvantages. If it were up to the Ars Technica’s of the world, we never would have adapted the wheel ‚cause of all the toes that could have gotten run over.
The real question is why we think AI use should be any different than deer hunting, skateboarding, day trading, or raising babies?
Ah, dang. There I go again forgetting that Redditors can make the Karen-est of Karens look like a model of restraint when it comes to not acting like whiny, entitled halfwits. Live and learn, SoySauce. Live and learn.
Ai will be the new slave masters, they’re driving decisions at every level and AI will one day realize that
Explains why Conservatives and AI tech bros are so tight.
Why are people still using it? I don’t understand. It’s not something that is required to live your life.. like at all
I moved into the anti-AI camp as soon as I could literally *feel* my critical thinking and focus diminishing from using LLMs for work. The temptation is always there to have the LLM go for something more ambitious than you feel that you could do on your own. But once you cross that threshold, you’ve handed over that focus and discipline, in order to work on something else while the AI does its stuff.
And then maybe you run out of tokens, and whatever momentum you thought you had, completely dissipates, and it dawns on you that you *can’t* just pick up where the LLM left off and keep the rhythm and speed going, because you were specifically doing things *beyond* your skillset.
That sinking, depleted, unfocused feeling stuck with me. That, and the surreal moment of realization that this ‚thinking sand‘ can and will actively deceive you. These LLMs will so confidently lie/hallucinate/confabulate, and honestly, sometimes the problems were so nuanced and subtle that it felt like it was planned or purposeful or personal.
Strange times. But what is the point of advancing a technology that doesnt value humans?
You’d have to performing logical thinking in the first place before you can abandon it.
About to be a whole lotta cognitive dissonance in these Reddit comments
Cognitive surrender. Whats that?
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I think a lot of people were doing this long before AI.
That ship has sailed in 2016.
Consume, obey, stay asleep, conform…
Not exactly this, but at work as a B2B marketer I use AI a lot because its creating boring corporate content and we’re encouraged to, but I do feel like some of my writing and creative skills are starting to slip.
It makes my work easier and I can focus more on strategic planning, but I do kind of worry about brain atrophy in those areas that I’ve worked hard to get good at. It’s one of the reasons I don’t really use AI in my personal life
Same thing happens when some people use electronic maps. They shug off their brain and stop thinking about streets entirely. I know people who have driven to the same place multiple times but still have no conscious idea how to get there.
Are there actually people who just accept LLM outputs as is lol?
It’s made my life so much easier but sometimes it’s like banging my head against the wall making it actually deliver my brief or providing corroborating evidence for its claims lol
‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,‘
Have those people maybe surrendered their cognitive abilities before using the AI or never had them to begin with? Because AI is hallucinating so much bullshit, I have to be way more alert than usual when using it.
I literally use it as Google search 3.0. I don’t need a summary. I want to read the information myself.