Why Cognitive Surrender Feels Alright

People often hand over their judgment to artificial intelligence because deep mental effort is unpleasant and machine outputs sound confident. This cognitive surrender erodes a person's critical thinking skills through lack of practice. Instructors and learners must now deliberately question machine answers and practice difficult mental tasks.

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