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Cognitive Agency Surrender: Defending Epistemic Sovereignty via Scaffolded AI Friction

The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence has transformed benign cognitive offloading into a systemic risk of cognitive agency surrender. Driven by the commercial dogma of "zero-friction" design, highly fluent AI interfaces actively exploit human cognitive miserliness, prematurely satisfying the need for cognitive closure and inducing severe automation bias. To empirically quantify this epistemic erosion, we deployed a zero-shot semantic classification pipeline ($τ=0.7$) on 1,223 h

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Published: 23 March 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Jobs & economy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (23 March 2026), “Cognitive Agency Surrender: Defending Epistemic Sovereignty via Scaffolded AI Friction,” evidence record 6861, https://ethics.ai/record/6861 (originally published by arXiv).

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