Cognitive Surrender: AI's Threat to Democracy

An MIT report highlights 'cognitive surrender' from AI chatbots, where users offload thinking. A Wesleyan professor warns that AI's sycophantic design can reinforce biases and suppress dissent, with algorithmic steering acting as a new form of censorship that threatens democratic deliberation and accountability.

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