{
  "id": 6861,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21735v2",
  "title": "Cognitive Agency Surrender: Defending Epistemic Sovereignty via Scaffolded AI Friction",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Kuangzhe Xu, Yu Shen, Longjie Yan, Yinghui Ren",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-03-23T09:24:56.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:45.897Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/6861",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21735v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}