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'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains — Gizmodo

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Key
pearl-2026-gizmodo-cognitive-surrender
Authors
Pearl, Mike
Issued
2026-4-5
Type
article-newspaper
Container
Gizmodo
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Claims

  1. Writing in Gizmodo, Mike Pearl called cognitive surrender a useful new term but cautioned readers to keep psychology's replication crisis in mind before treating the experiment's results as settled, while noting he had not identified problems with the work.
    "you should read up on the replication crisis before you take the results of any experiment as gospel. [...] That's not to say I noticed problems with these authors' work"
    Quote language: en
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