In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...

At a recent Columbia SPS Author Spotlight, ERM Associate Director and Lecturer Rich Lauria and Capita Solutions CEO John Burkhardt explored how managing risk starts with understanding the mind.

This is because emotions are extremely strong in some people and can overrule any rational thoughts and reasoning. If a ...

A layered resilience framework to safeguard agentic AI from progressive cognitive degradation and systemic collapse.

“I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said one year before — where’s Pete? In the book, I wrote — whatever the hell the title, I can’t tell you but I can tell you there’s a page in there devoted ...

After Mass on Sunday, our priest took a moment to relay a message from our bishop regarding the upcoming off-year elections here in Virginia. The Church, of course, goes to great lengths to avoid ...

When politicians resort to insult and name calling, it is a sign that they have nothing convincing to say. No data, no logic and no insights to support their position. It is a desperate ploy to win by ...

The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social ...

Our minds frequently convince us of things that aren’t actually true. They’re called cognitive distortions. And they’re hard to recognise, because they always feel like that’s just the way things are.

Cognitive models of emotional disorders emphasize the role of biased information processing in the psychological functioning of anxious individuals. So far, the role of cognitive errors in problems of ...