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surrender-leads-to-debt · storey-2026-triple-debt
- Citation
- storey-2026-triple-debt
- Claim ID
- surrender-leads-to-debt
- Assertion
- Storey identifies cognitive surrender, as described by Shaw and Nave, as the psychological mechanism behind cognitive debt, and argues that because surrender inflates confidence, it helps explain why teams do not notice cognitive debt until it is too late.
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The psychological mechanism behind this is what Shaw and Nave [2026] refer to as cognitive surrender: adopting AI outputs with minimal scrutiny [...] Notably, Shaw and Nave find that cognitive surrender also inflates confidence even when the AI is wrong, which helps explain why cognitive debt remains invisible until it is too late: the team feels they understand the system better than they do.
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- en
- Locator
- section: Cognitive Surrender Leads to Cognitive Debt
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