AI is quickly becoming the default explainer for everything people don’t have the time or inclination to actually research. It offers a coherent story, which we are most likely to accept as accurate.

Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term "potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that ace conceptual ...

Having to explain how a political policy works leads people to express less extreme attitudes toward the policy, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the ...