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Article

Using AI and explaining your own thinking

A qualitative study examines how doctoral researchers delegate cognitive work to AI and assess their own thinking.

Why read it?

Helps ask what a person can still reconstruct and explain after using AI.

Keep in mind

The study develops an explanation from qualitative data. It does not establish a causal effect or a general percentage.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Cognitive offloading and metacognitive calibration in generative AI-mediated doctoral learning: a grounded theory study of accountable reconstruction

Author(s): Lingyun Gao; Feng Zhang · Year: 2026

Publication / host: Frontiers Media SA
Source language: English

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1920947

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Keeping work going when systems fail

NIST guidance on preparing organisations for failures of information systems.

Why read it?

Makes dependency concrete: what can you still do when a digital tool becomes unavailable?

Keep in mind

The guidance dates from 2010. It needs to be adapted to an organisation's own systems and risks.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Contingency planning guide for federal information systems

Author(s): M Swanson; P Bowen; A W Phillips; D Gallup; D Lynes · Year: 2010

Publication / host: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source language: English

DOI: 10.6028/nist.sp.800-34r1

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Article

Learning with generative AI

A contribution to the debate about education, cognitive processes and the use of generative AI.

Why read it?

Provides a starting point for exploring the place of generative AI in learning.

Keep in mind

When reading its conclusions, examine what the publication investigates and how it supports its claims.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Educating minds with generative AI

Author(s): Laura Desiree Di Paolo; Andy Clark; Thomas Wachter · Year: 2026

Publication / host: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Source language: English

DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00522-8

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Practice-based article

Jurgen Ingels: “Ondernemerschap moet in je DNA zitten maar al de rest, van pitching tot sales, kan je leren”

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Title as recorded: Jurgen Ingels: “Ondernemerschap moet in je DNA zitten maar al de rest, van pitching tot sales, kan je leren”

Author(s): Magali De Reu — interview met Jürgen Ingels · Year: 2018

Publication / host: Bloovi
Source language: Dutch

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Article

Nagel: guessing what others will choose

An experiment examines how people reason step by step about other participants' choices.

Why read it?

Makes reasoning about other people's expectations testable in a game.

Keep in mind

The results depend on the rules, participants' experience and the composition of the group.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Nagels beauty-contest-experiment

Author(s): Not recorded · Year: Not recorded

Publication / host: www.cs.princeton.edu
Source language: English

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Reference work

An introduction to Nietzsche

An overview of Nietzsche's work, major themes and debates about their interpretation.

Why read it?

Helps place statements by Nietzsche in a wider context.

Keep in mind

The overview discusses other texts. Consult Nietzsche's own work when using a specific passage.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Friedrich Nietzsche

Author(s): Anderson, R. Lanier · Year: 2017

Publication / host: plato.stanford.edu
Source language: English

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Book

Putnam: brains in a vat

Putnam uses the thought experiment of brains in a vat to examine meaning, reference and doubt.

Why read it?

An original source for asking how we know that experience refers to an external world.

Keep in mind

The scenario serves a philosophical argument. Putnam is not claiming that we actually live in such a situation.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Reason, Truth and History

Author(s): Hilary Putnam · Year: 1981

Publication / host: Cambridge University Press
Source language: English

DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511625398

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Article

Apparent agreement in a group

Research into illusions of agreement when groups determine requirements for an information system.

Why read it?

Encourages further questions when everyone appears to agree.

Keep in mind

The study concerns a particular form of collaboration. The pattern need not occur in every group decision.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Investigating illusions of agreement in group requirements determination

Author(s): Glenn J. Browne; Radha Appan; Roozmehr Safi; Vidhya Mellarkod · Year: 2018

Publication / host: Elsevier BV
Source language: English

DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2018.05.013

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Article

Berkson: selection can create an association

Berkson examines how hospital data can give a distorted picture of associations in the wider population.

Why read it?

An original source for asking how data selection can shape a finding.

Keep in mind

The bias depends on how people come to be included in the group being studied.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Limitations of the Application of Fourfold Table Analysis to Hospital Data

Author(s): Joseph Berkson · Year: 1946

Publication / host: JSTOR
Source language: English

DOI: 10.2307/3002000

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Book

What does scientific understanding mean?

Henk de Regt examines how scientists achieve understanding and what makes a theory intelligible to them.

Why read it?

Explores the difference between having a useful answer and understanding how something works.

Keep in mind

The link leads to the publisher's page. Access to the full book may require payment.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Wat betekent wetenschappelijk begrijpen?

Author(s): Not recorded · Year: Not recorded

Publication / host: global.oup.com
Source language: English

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Article

When can AI deserve trust?

A philosophical article critically examines common reasons for rejecting trust in AI.

Why read it?

Offers a counterpoint to the idea that trust in AI is always misplaced.

Keep in mind

The author defends a position in a debate. The reliability of a particular system requires a separate assessment.

Reference details

Title as recorded: A dilemma for skeptics of trustworthy AI

Author(s): Madeleine Ransom; Nicole Menard · Year: 2026

Publication / host: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Source language: English

DOI: 10.1007/s43681-026-01388-6

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Tool

AI as a tool for fact-checkers

Full Fact describes how technology helps journalists identify and track checkable claims.

Why read it?

Shows a concrete use of AI to support fact-checking.

Keep in mind

Full Fact is describing its own practice. This does not establish that AI can check every fact independently.

Reference details

Title as recorded: AI als hulpmiddel voor factcheckers

Author(s): Not recorded · Year: Not recorded

Publication / host: fullfact.org
Source language: English

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Article

Wittgenstein on personal experience

Lecture notes on experience, language and what we can say about our inner sensations.

Why read it?

Explores how we use words to discuss personal experience.

Keep in mind

Consider how these historical notes were collected and edited.

Reference details

Title as recorded: II: Notes for Lectures on "Private Experience" and "Sense Data"

Author(s): Ludwig Wittgenstein · Year: 1968

Publication / host: JSTOR
Source language: English

DOI: 10.2307/2183568

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Reference work

How science depends on other people

An overview of the role of collaboration, trust and criticism in developing scientific knowledge.

Why read it?

Helps explain why scientific knowledge also depends on others.

Keep in mind

The overview covers several positions. They do not form a single, agreed theory.

Reference details

Title as recorded: The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge

Author(s): Longino, Helen · Year: 2002

Publication / host: plato.stanford.edu
Source language: English

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Guidance

Keeping people in view when assessing algorithms

The Netherlands Court of Audit describes how to keep the people affected by algorithms in view when assessing them.

Why read it?

Provides questions for considering the people behind an algorithmic decision.

Keep in mind

The questions support assessment. Actual effects on people still need to be investigated.

Reference details

Title as recorded: De menselijke maat bij algoritmes

Author(s): Not recorded · Year: Not recorded

Publication / host: www.rekenkamer.nl
Source language: Dutch

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Article

Language models that follow other answers

This study examines the extent to which language models adjust their answers to those of others.

Why read it?

Explores whether multiple AI answers provide genuinely independent challenges.

Keep in mind

Behaviour in a test does not establish that a language model experiences human social pressure.

Reference details

Title as recorded: Conformity in Large Language Models

Author(s): Xiaochen Zhu; Caiqi Zhang; Tom Stafford; Nigel Collier; Andreas Vlachos · Year: 2025

Publication / host: Association for Computational Linguistics
Source language: English

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.195

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Preprint

Programming with AI while building your own skills

An experiment examines AI assistance with programming tasks and what participants learn themselves.

Why read it?

Helps distinguish faster delivery from developing a skill.

Keep in mind

This is a preprint with a limited participant group. Its results do not establish how all developers learn over the long term.

Reference details

Title as recorded: How AI Impacts Skill Formation

Author(s): Shen, Judy Hanwen; Tamkin, Alex · Year: Not recorded

Publication / host: arxiv.org
Source language: English

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Article

Arrow: the limits of collective choice

Arrow examines whether individual preferences can be combined into a collective choice that meets several reasonable requirements.

Why read it?

An original source for asking why fair collective decisions can be difficult.

Keep in mind

The impossibility result holds under precisely specified mathematical conditions.

Reference details

Title as recorded: A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare

Author(s): Kenneth J. Arrow · Year: 1950

Publication / host: University of Chicago Press
Source language: English

DOI: 10.1086/256963

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