Designing Against Deskilling: Metacognitive Feedback Reduces Cognitive Offloading to LLM Assistants

arXiv:2609.20143 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Generative AI — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metacognition — 13× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AUC — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Scaffolding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Munich Center for Machine Learning — 3× in this paper
• Active Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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