Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
- Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
Researchers already have a name for this: “cognitive surrender” (Shaw and Nave, 2026). In a separate study, wrong AI advice made people less willing to say “I don’t know”, and more confident as their accuracy fell.