Category: Psychology
Cognition, behavior, and decision-making. How people relate to technology and each other, grounded in behavioral science rather than pop psychology.
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Digital DNA and Robots: Reimagining Identity After Death
The Digital DNA project proposes to extend human identity beyond death using AI and robotics. This raises profound questions about identity continuity and ethical implications in a digital age. The balance between innovation and ethical responsibility will shape our future relationship with legacy and mortality. Read more
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AI’s Role in Quietly Redefining Our Sense of Agency
In an AI-dominated landscape, our sense of agency is quietly shifting. As AI platforms take over roles requiring judgment and discretion, our autonomy and decision-making capacities are being reshaped. This shift calls for a reevaluation of our relationship with technology, ensuring it serves as an aid rather than a replacement. Read more
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AI and Human Decision-Making: A Complex Dance with Autonomy
Recent research highlights how AI is reshaping human decision-making by mimicking cognitive processes, raising questions about agency and autonomy. This interplay requires a balanced approach to maintain human oversight and prevent bias perpetuation. Read more
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Ninety-Four Percent Agree, and Nothing Changes: AI and the Comprehension Gap
A new survey finds 94 percent of Americans want action on health care affordability — a number so large it should produce movement, and doesn’t. AI wellness platforms are extraordinarily good at making problems legible and extraordinarily poor at building the procedural capacities needed to act on them. That gap is not accidental. Read more
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Cognitive Fatigue Is Real — and AI Is Quietly Exploiting It
A Johns Hopkins fMRI study found that cognitive fatigue systematically biases the brain’s effort-reward calculus, making people more likely to choose low-effort, lower-quality outcomes. The timing problem for AI is specific: people reach for AI tools most readily when they are most exhausted, which is also when they are least equipped to evaluate what those… Read more
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When AI Puts Words in Your Mouth: The D4vd Case and Digital Identity
When a fake AI-generated confession track appeared on singer D4vd’s verified Apple Music page, it revealed something more durable than a hack: that platform authentication systems were designed for a threat environment that no longer exists. The cognitive mechanism of source monitoring — how we decide whether to trust information based on where it appears… Read more
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Ancient Hunger Circuits, Caregiving Ants, and What AI Can’t Replicate
A new Nature study from Rockefeller University identifies two neuropeptides — NPF and AstA — that toggle clonal raider ants between caregiving and foraging by repurposing ancient hunger circuits. The finding raises a precise question about AI-assisted caregiving: if attentiveness in biological systems is coupled to interoceptive state, what happens when the process is delegated… Read more
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Reframing Injury, Reframing the Self: What AI Misses About Mindset
Gabby Thomas’s deliberate reframe of injury as healing points to a cognitive capacity that AI wellness tools now routinely claim to replicate. The question is whether outsourcing that reframe to a system undermines the very mechanism that makes it work — and whether anyone is measuring the difference. Read more
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AI and the Vanishing Practice of Local Knowledge Sharing
AI and digital platforms have increased access to information but have also discouraged the organic sharing of local knowledge. This shift diminishes individual agency and weakens community cohesion, affecting how people relate to each other. Read more
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AI’s Role in Shaping Scientific Inquiry and Human Curiosity
AI’s integration into scientific research is transforming how researchers approach problem-solving and exploration. While AI can enhance discovery, it is crucial to balance its capabilities with human creativity to maintain the richness of scientific inquiry. Read more
