Defining cognitive debt and agency decay

In our latest Clarity podcast, Dr. Cornelia Walther warns that unchecked AI use is driving cognitive decline while weakening critical thinking, decision-making, and meaning at work as people increasingly default to machine judgment. She calls for hybrid intelligence — a pairing of AI fluency and human literacy — and urges companies to govern AI not just for speed and scale, but for human dignity, well-being, and positive social impact.