https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/tags/cognition/Recent content in Cognition on Lynx Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/mit-ai-dependency-paradox-fake-news/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/mit-ai-dependency-paradox-fake-news/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/mit-ai-dependency-paradox-fake-news.png" alt="Featured image of post After 4 Weeks of Using AI to Check Fake News, Turning It Off Leaves You Worse Than When You Started — MIT's "Dependency Paradox"" />In week one, people using an AI assistant to identify fake news were 21% more accurate than the control group. By week four, when the AI was taken away, their accuracy didn&rsquo;t rise — it fell, ending up 15 percentage points below where they started before the experiment. Stranger still, about one in five participants &ldquo;felt they had gotten better.&rdquo; This comes from a study published on August 25, 2026 by Pattie Maes&rsquo;s team at the MIT Media Lab (covered the same day by MIT Tec