# Steven Shaw

Suosituimmat podcast-jaksot
Päivitetty:

The AI Optimist Researching ‘Cognitive Surrender’

A new paper warns of the dangers of people blindly adopting AI results in what researchers call "cognitive surrender." The lead author believes that with careful adoption, AI can improve education and boost learning. But he says the stakes are high for getting AI right in teaching.   "Thinking—Fa…

Fast, Slow, and Artificial — a Conversation With Dr. Steven Shaw on AI and Cognitive Surrender

For decades, we've understood human reasoning through two systems: the fast, intuitive one and the slow, deliberate one. But that framework was built before AI became a thinking partner. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Steven Shaw — a Canadian scholar and postdoctoral fellow at the Wharton Sch…

#195. Stop Grinding Against Your Own Grain: Burnout, Energy & The Growth Cycle with Kate Vanden Bos

In this warm, practical conversation, Desiree Stanley sits down with Kate Vanden Bos, creator of The Growth Cycle, who helps professional women stop the daily energy drain and get more of what they actually want out of life without doing more or sacrificing everything to get there. Kate offers a re…

Is AI changing how we think?

AI has taken the grunt work out of many everyday tasks; from writing emails to planning dinner.   But are we starting to rely on AI to think for us and could it be making us dumber?   Today, Steven Shaw from the University of Pennsylvania on his research into cognitive surrender, AI and your brain.…

Editor's Choice II - Episode 105: AI, Clinical Judgment and Cognitive Surrender with Prof. Steven Shaw

“With artificial cognition, we have the ability to outsource the entire thinking or reasoning process itself. And that’s what we call cognitive surrender: the adoption of AI outputs without verification, without much internal engagement at all.” What happens to clinical judgment when physicians beg…

Cognitive Surrender and What it Means to Public Relations

For decades, PR professionals have tried to influence what people think or how they think it.  AI may be changing something even more fundamental: whether people do much of that thinking themselves.  Researchers call it “Cognitive Surrender.” The tendency to accept an AI-generated answer without re…

Rust in Pieces (with Alistair Norman and Sofia Besenski)

On this episode of Dead Code, host Jared talks with Sofia Besenski and Alistair Norman of Super Good about DHH's 2026 Rails World keynote. In it, DHH announced that HEY is leaving Rails for six native apps and a Rust backend. He has called Rust hideous before, but he now argues that the language's …

Editor's Choice III - Ep 108: Post-Plagiarism, AI and Academic Integrity with Professor Sarah Elaine Eaton

“Can you stand by the work? Are you proud of the work?” What does academic integrity look like when artificial intelligence can produce a polished manuscript—but the human author may never have done the thinking behind it? In this special Editor’s Choice episode of JCMS Author Interviews, Dr. Kirk …

Cognitive Surrender: How AI Alters Human Reasoning and Decision-Making in the Workplace

Recent research from Wharton examines "cognitive surrender," where people uncritically accept AI's answers, replacing their own reasoning. Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave conducted experiments with over 1,300 participants, introducing the Tri-System Theory, which adds AI as a third mode of thinking. Th…