AI's Most Dangerous Gift: The Illusion of Understanding
DrKavner · x · 2026-08-21
The most dangerous thing AI can give you is not a wrong answer. It is the feeling that you now understand the answer well enough to stop thinking. That feeling has a long history in cognitive science. In a classic paper on the illusion of explanatory depth, Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil showed that people often overestimate their understanding of how things work.
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