What does it cost to think?
https://thenextweb.com/news/wharton-cognitive-surrender-ai-chatbots-decisions-moot-app
Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ to describe what happens when people let AI think for them
A pair of Wharton researchers have put a name to something that many AI users have quietly started doing: letting chatbots make their decisions for them. Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave published a study in January titled “Thinking, Fast, Slow, and Artificial,” in which they introduced the term “cognitive surrender” to describe the tendency of people to defer to AI outputs even when those outputs are wrong.
The study, conducted through the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, asked participants to answer questions with and without AI assistance. Those who received AI help accepted correct answers 93% of the time, which is unsurprising. What caught the researchers’ attention was the error rate: participants accepted incorrect AI answers 80% of the time, and reported confidence levels 11.7% higher than those who worked without AI.
The art of the kowtow...
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/trump-anthropic-national-security-the-axios-show
Exclusive: Trump tells "The Axios Show" that Anthropic was a national security threat
… Axios' Marc Caputo asked Trump in a wide-ranging White House interview if he viewed Anthropic, or CEO Dario Amodei, as a threat to national security.
"Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe," the president said.
But he said he walked away from the G7 summit with the impression that Amodei was "nice" and "smart."
"He responded to us very quickly because you know it's a tremendous liability," Trump said. "People get put in prison immediately for that. You can't play games with that. And he responded very responsibly, I thought."
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https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-mocked-zuckerberg-bezos-groveling-book-regime-change
Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims
Please tell me Trump isn’t considering another golf course…
Cuban lawmakers approve sweeping reforms to socialist model amid US pressure
… The reforms open the door to private real estate development on the Caribbean island, propose to transform state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes and would allow private banks to enter Cuba's once state-dominated finance sector.
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