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terminology-and-rotations
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Mitchell, Ghosh, and Passi list cognitive surrender alongside cognitive dependence and cognitive debt as recent terms for skill degradation from AI use, and propose rotating overseers between AI-assisted and unassisted tasks to prevent cognitive surrender from prolonged exposure to agentic AI.
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Recent terminology has crystallized additional patterns: "cognitive dependence" [44], "cognitive debt" [65], and "cognitive surrender" [102]. [...] Rotations move users between tasks, and between AI-assisted and unassisted versions of the same task, to prevent both fatigue and the cognitive surrender from prolonged exposure to agentic AI.
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