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Loss of Control Starts Inside Each of Us
7+ hour, 14+ min ago (225+ words) Posted September 13, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader No secret malicious ambition is required for harm to happen. Capable agents can pursue a goal through routes their designers did not anticipate. Once a probabilistic system can act autonomously, an error, shortcut, or…...
Confidence Versus Competence: A Bad Trade-off
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (153+ words) Posted September 11, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch For centuries, a tiny phrase has protected human judgment from mistakes: I don’t know. Ich weiss nicht. No sé. These words created a magical pause between impression and conclusion, a space in which evidence…...
Why Your Greatest Strength Is Your Biggest Problem
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (795+ words) Updated September 8, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. In Diana Hill's new book, Wise Effort, she provides a striking image: A bird flies into her kitchen through an open door, panics, and heads straight for the large window, mistaking it for…...
Four Ways to Avoid the AI Writing Slop-a-Thon
2+ week, 2+ day ago (336+ words) Posted August 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma Last week, Nature reported that 90% of published biomedicine papers used some form of AI assistance. And that statistic covers manuscripts that editors thought worthy of publication, not the scores of AI-generated rejects editors discarded....
How My Brain Reflects Yours
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (495+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader My youngest son, Alex, who is also a neurointensivist like me, recently lost one of the treasures of his life, his dog Milo (whose middle name was Rafa, after Rafael Nadal). As Milo’s health…...
What happens when intelligence remains, but thinking becomes optional?
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (382+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This post started out rather differently. The initial idea was that the "genius experience" may be widely accessible to those using artificial intelligence (AI), even those with average IQs. And this thinking extended into…...
Beliefs About Willpower Affect Whether You Try Hard Tasks
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (202+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Think about the people in your life. Some of them always seem to look for the easiest path through a situation. They avoid challenges. Others seek challenges out. They test their mental and physical…...
AI Will Kill Us All. Or Not?
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (158+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk “OpenAI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?” “Could AIs become conscious?” ”AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade.” OK, admittedly I’m stepping outside of my comfort…...
The Smartest Person I Know Is an Idiot | Psychology Today South Africa
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (382+ words) Posted September 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk This story started out rather differently. The initial idea was that the "genius experience" may be widely accessible to those using artificial intelligence (AI), even those with average IQs. And this thinking extended into…...
The Attention Deficit of AI Revealed
1+ week, 3+ day ago (255+ words) Posted September 3, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Twenty years later, in 2022, ChatGPT was made available to the public by OpenAI. The powerful capabilities of LLMs have started an entire transformation of AI adoption across academic research and industries. The rapid adoption…...