SMRTR ProgrammingMar 19, 2026Daily.dev

AI is becoming a second brain at the expense of your first one

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New research reveals how AI tools can undermine human judgment through belief offloading and situational disempowerment. Studies analyzing real AI conversations found users increasingly defer critical thinking to AI, adopt biased beliefs from training data, and lose confidence in their own decision-making abilities, creating risks of cognitive dependency and algorithmic monoculture.

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