AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse (Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, Asuman Ozdaglar) (opens in new tab)

"We study how generative AI, and in particular agentic AI, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society’s information ecosystem. We build a dynamic model of learning and decision-making in which successful decisions require combining shared, community-level general knowledge with individual-level, context-specific knowledge; these two inputs are complements. Learning exhibits economies of scope: costly human effort jointly produces a private signal about their own co...