Tag: evolutionary neuroscience
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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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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
