When the same cognitive neuroscientist gave the Senate one position and a podcast six days earlier the opposite, the cognitive research base supports neither. The viral oral testimony has more than two million views. Missouri HB 2230 passed the House 143-10 with witnesses citing it by name. KOSMA at the federal level is being built on this evidentiary record. This 39-page case study sets four artifacts side by side and documents how strategic ambiguity in credentialed testimony reaches policy without ever being reconciled.
Working Papers
The AI Cognitive Decline Narrative Has Not Tested What It Claims
The peer-reviewed evidence base does not yet support the cognitive-decline claim, and it does not yet support the opposite claim either. Two scientific questions remain open: whether structured human-governed AI use accelerates cognitive development, and what augmented intelligence is in practice. This methodological audit specifies the standards the field would have to meet, scores the existing evidence against those standards, and offers HAIA-RECCLIN Reasoning, HEQ with AIS, and a five-arm randomized controlled trial design as testable counter-proposals.
FIVE CONDITIONS OF SENTIENT LIFE
What separates sentient life from sophisticated mimicry? A new working paper proposes five conditions that together constitute morally significant sentient life. Read why no current AI system satisfies all five simultaneously, and what would have to change for that conclusion to be revised.