Harvard-led paper warns LLMs may act as a "cognitive virus"

A Harvard-led paper models societal cognitive dependence on LLMs as a feedback problem, warning that even modest adoption growth could trigger a tipping point of collective cognitive reliance. The authors frame LLMs as a "cognitive virus" spreading through human cognition.

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