{"id":226068,"date":"2026-06-04T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:35:12","slug":"cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Surrender With AI Was Just the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-digital-self\/202606\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning\">Cognitive Surrender With AI Was Just the Beginning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-digital-self\/202606\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-digital-self\/202606\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 11:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psychologytoday.com\">www.psychologytoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The shift to using AI for cognitive tasks reveals a preference for easy, frictionless answers, potentially eroding human cognitive efforts.<\/li>\n<li>AI offers seamless, non-judgmental emotional support that can be genuinely beneficial but may alter expectations for emotional interactions in human relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Each meaningful human relationship necessitates some effort, compromise, and emotional reciprocity.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s fundamental asymmetry\u2014where nothing is required in return for the attention and validation it offers\u2014might realign human expectations, making demanding relationships seem less worthwhile.<\/li>\n<li>The gradual adjustment to AI&#8217;s effortless nature could lead to a cognitive and emotional surrender, where human interactions start to feel burdensome.<\/li>\n<li>The shift towards valuing AI-enabled emotional support over human relationships may not appear as a loss but as improvement, masking the gradual decline in valuing traditional human connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Surrender With AI Was Just the Beginning https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-digital-self\/202606\/cognitive-surrender-with-ai-was-just-the-beginning Publish Date: 2026-06-04 11:12:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn2.psychologytoday.com\/assets\/styles\/manual_crop_1_91_1_1528x800\/public\/field_blog_entry_images\/2026-06\/809499-sad-659422__1_.jpg?itok=ALuM-te8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226070,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226068\/revisions\/226070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}