Paper: AI overseers suffer deskilling, vigilance loss and cognitive debt
math_rachel · x · 2026-10-17
Rachel Thomas continues her thread on the Mitchell et al. paper: overseers of AI systems designed with humans as an afterthought experience deskilling, intuition rust, reduced vigilance, overreliance, cognitive debt, and cognitive surrender — degrading the very capacities oversight requires.
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