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THE COMPANION

SECTION 18

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONresearch1-3yconfidence / medium

Track the Health of Human Judgment

Projection: organizations will measure whether long-term AI use strengthens or erodes unaided judgment, error detection, learning, and recovery. Voluntary, nonpunitive sampling can compare teams over time. Productivity may rise while the capacity to operate without the assistant quietly decays; a serious adoption program must see both curves.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

Cognitive-offloading studies motivate longitudinal measurement; OECD reports that training and context shape workplace outcomes from AI use.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    Cognitive Offloading, Critical Thinking and Attitudes Towards AI

    peer-reviewed primary research / published 2026-06-30 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    AI and Skills: What We Know So Far

    OECD report / dated 2026 / retrieved 2026-07-10

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