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“Reason holds the helm, but passions are the gales” —John Adams (McCullough, 2001). “... there are things which we thought we knew and don’t know… I think nobody should be certain of anything.” ...

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Chatbots can facilitate ‘cognitive offloading,’ or taking shortcuts when learning. But emerging research on AI and cognitive ...