When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review to detect reasoning or factual flaws in responses. On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine.
Recent research goes a long way to forming a new psychological framework for that second group, which regularly engages in “cognitive surrender” to AI’s seemingly authoritative answers. That research also provides some experimental examination of when and why people are willing to outsource their critical thinking to AI, and how factors like time pressure and external incentives can affect that decision.
Maybe… But I guess so does branding of many sorts. People rarely question the efficiency and/or safety (or the moral integrity in the manufacturing process) of a lot of products. Foods, cosmetics and medicines would be the first categories that spring to mind which are regularly abused and misused by population at large.
So yes my point being perhaps religion has been doing this for centuries but it’s not like there wasn’t any other case