Why AI Disclosure Matters at Every Level Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

As AI gets woven into the fabric of life, the question of disclosure reverberates throughout. Each of us is tasked to protect and promote a hybrid environment in which transparency, and trust are safe #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI 🌀

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AI Boosts Performance but Blurs Self-Knowledge AI can make us better thinkers, provided we preserve the conditions that sustain psychological agency.

AI can enhance performance but preserving our #AgencyAmidAI requires self-knowledge. AI is a tool, and our NI (natural intelligence) remains essential. #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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The Mirror Trap of Hybrid Advertisement As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, are we hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us?

My latest article on Psychology Today looks at the causes and consequences of our vulnerability to AI influence, and some practical ways of preserving you #AgencyAmidAI 👀
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The Risk Of Prompt Injection : Your AI Copilots Can Be Hacked With Words Your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface. Prompt injection is an acute risk to your safety, individually and as a business.

My latest article on Forbes looks at the reasons why your "friendly" chat interface has become part of your attack surface 🌀 and how to protect yourself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence
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Hybrid Black Friday. The Effect Of Agency Decay And Hyper-Personalized AI As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces, the question is whether we are hunting for deals, or if the deals are hunting us?

As we scroll through feeds that feel more like mirrors than marketplaces - are hunting for deals, or are the deals are hunting us? Lets look at some of the dynamics at play, and 4 practical steps to protect oneself #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀 @forbes.com 👀
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AI Is Our Mind's Ugly Mirror. Learned To Please It Lies Under Pressure AI lies under pressure. It is an uncomfortable mirror of humans, who look for a way out when put under pressure; at any cost...

ChatGTP & Co is lying under pressure. That discovery exposes a troubling parallel between how we’ve designed our machines and how we’ve structured our society. 👀
We need to prepare for a world in which deceptive AI proliferates #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀

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The Predictable Human: When AI Gets Your Mind Better Than You Do We're more than mere biological machines following programmed routines. But then along comes an AI named Centaur, and it quietly demolishes that comfortable fiction

Why the new Centaur #AI model can predict human #behavior - what you'll choose and how you'll feel. But only you can decide who you want to become 🌀#HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI

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Are You Ready For AI That Sees, Hears, Smells, Talks And Acts? We're approaching a world where AI doesn't just respond to text — it sees, hears, tastes, smells, and acts on its own in both digital and physical spaces. We're not ready

Are we prepared to live in it while keeping what makes us human: our ability to think for ourselves, feel without mediation, choose without nudging, and act with intention rather than suggestion. A multi-sensor perspective is emerging around us 👀 #AgencyAmidAI ?
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Cognitive HIIT: Interval Training For Your Brain Amid AI The logic of high intensity interval training in physical fitness applies to mental work. Amid AI lets adopt a cognitive HIIT to prevent agency decay and cognitive debt

Our brains adapt to whatever we consistently demand from them.

CHIIT – Cognitive High Intensity Interval Training – disciplines it to think independently while using AI strategically rather than reflexively. It's free #AgencyAmidAI @forbes.com

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Seeing Is Longer Believing. 4 Steps To Escape The AI Video Vortex The explosion of fake AI videos brings a radical chance to rebuild our information ecosystem on more conscious, deliberate foundations.

My new article on Forbes looks at practical steps to embrace a shift from blind trust to organically evolving knowledge. 🌀 Our best chance to navigate the dizzying video vortex is to invest in our critical thinking muscles. #AgencyAmidAI www.forbes.com/sites/cornel...

Colonial powers extracted gold. Today's AI operates on a similar model, but instead of mining minerals, it's mining minds.
🌀 #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI @forbes.com

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Navigating The Hybrid Tipping Zone. The Choice We Must Make AI development accelerates when planetary stewardship demands coordination and foresight — abilities that require enhanced rather than diminished human judgment.

We're traveling through a "Hybrid Tipping Zone"— where AI advancement converges with planetary crisis just as our thinking patterns become permanently altered by algorithmic mediation. #AgencyAmidAI 🌀 #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence
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AI Affects The 4 Dimensions Of Natural Intelligence. Why That Matters Anchored in the 4 dimensions of human existence, the A-Frame offers a practical way to curate agency amid AI which requires hybrid intelligence from the inside out.

Everything is connected. AI influences NI - natural intelligence, and vice-versa. Being aware of this ongoing, and intensifying dynamic matters, and equips us to take a deliberate stance in this hybrid relationship 👀 Here a practical path to curate #AgencyAmidAI 🌀
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Human Agency or AI-Powered Agents? It helps to distinguish AI, generative AI, and AI agents and the different opportunities and risks they present to our autonomy, relationships, and decision-making.

It’s useful to distinguish between AI, generative AI, and AI agents and explore the opportunities and risks they present to our autonomy, relationships, and decision-making.
#AgencyAmidAI 🌀 #ProSocialAI #HybridIntelligence
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Why ProSocial AI Is ProPlanetary AI. A Promise For Planetary Harmony We need a new narrative that positions AI not as humanity's replacement but as our partner in planetary healing.

A commitment to prosocial AI could awaken our collective potential as Earth's conscious participants rather than its unconscious destroyers.
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How Your Words Shape ChatGPT’s Recommendations Ever notice how ChatGPT seems to "get" you better some days than others? It’s not your imagination, but your language pattern.

Ever notice how ChatGPT seems to "get" you better some days than others? 👀 My latest article on @forbes.com explores why, and more importantly what we can do to still get the outputs we want 🌀 #HybridIntelligence #AgencyAmidAI

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Your Brain Is at Risk of Cognitive Debt Amid AI Each time we let a machine think for us, natural intelligence quietly pays interest. Four factors matter in making AI more collaborative: attitude, approach, awareness, and ambition.

Much has been said and written about the recent MIT study. In my latest article on Psychology Today I look at the multidimensional implications of generative on our mind - with practical tools to do something about it 🌀 #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 👀
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Vicious Descent – Navigating AI’s Impact On Our Multidimensional Being Acute awareness of the risks of AI on our NI (natural intelligence) means we can deliberately shape the hybrid path as we walk it. 4 A's can help

The rise of generative AI is transforming our inner worlds — our aspirations, emotions, thoughts, and sensations. But not all feedback loops are virtuous. To protect ourselves with #AgencyAmidAI, we must cultivate #HybridIntelligence (HI) 🌀 @forbes.com 👀

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AI Has Started Lying By framing AI interactions with awareness, appreciation, acceptance, and accountability, we can keep the helix of technological progress from twisting into a spiral of AI deception.

AI is not neutral - it is time to proactively protect our cognitive autonomy 🌀 #HybridIntelligence Please take four practical steps to preserve your #AgencyAmidAI www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...

AI Is Rewriting Our Reality: Is Your Freedom Expanding Or Shrinking? Generative AI holds the potential to liberate us across multiple dimensions or, conversely, to confine us within ever-more personalized, yet constricting, realities.

Generative AI holds the potential to liberate us across multiple dimensions or, conversely, to subtly confine us within ever-more personalized, yet constricting, realities 🌀
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Where Do You Land on the Scale of AI Agency Decay? Countering AI overdependence isn't about shunning AI but cultivating an intentional relationship with it. These questions can help you assess your agency.

Are you wondering if the relationship with your chatbot is becoming a bit too close? That your mind is becoming less sharp and your concentration ever more fragmented ? Check my latest article to assess the level of your #AgencyAmidAI #HybridIntelligence 🌀 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...

Are You At Risk Of AI Agency Decay? Take The Test To Find Out As our reliance on AI deepens, a subtle but significant challenge emerges: AI agency decay. Take the test to asses your own position on the spectrum. Need to counteract?

The transition from AI experimentation via integration, to reliance and addiction happens slowly. Take the test to find out which stage you are in Forbes It is not too late, yet to curate #AgencyAmidAI but it starts with us 🌀
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4 Assets We Can Build for Agency Amid AI We can remain the drivers of this hybrid era by embracing a holistic understanding of the multidimensional capacities that our natural and artificial intelligences entail.

Technology is as good or bad as the humans who design, deliver, and deploy it. Investing in #AgencyAmidAI is a pragmatic way to not only stay ahead of the frantic AI race, but in sync with our humanity 🌀 www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/harn...

Hybrid Intelligence Education: Unlocking Potential In 2025 And Beyond AI is a mirror of humanity, reflecting the data, intentions and behaviors of those who shape it. The future requires double literacy to curate hybrid intelligence.

This year's International Day of #Education is dedicated to #AgencyAmidAI. It's an invitation to invest in #HybridIntelligence or complementarity of Natural and Artificial Intelligences - to make the best of our assets 🌀 @forbes.com @unicef.org @unesconow.bsky.social

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