"Cognitive surrender" seem a bit of a loaded term for trusting the AI.

If you stop doing long division by hand and use a calculator is that cognitive surrender or just normal life? And if the calculator has the wrong answer and you accept that is that that surprising?

In terms of the danger of trusting stuff without double checking there seem more problems with Fox News etc. than AI which tends to be fairly neutral if sometimes wrong.

"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows."

- Plato

I think no reasonable person would be against literacy in the modern world and similarly we will continue to adapt to new technology and be the better for it.

>If you stop doing long division by hand and use a calculator is that cognitive surrender

yes, you have surrendered to the assumption that the calculator can calculate quicker and more accurately than you can, almost invariably correct.

Now people are surrendering to the assumption that the AI knows more and can reason from what it knows better than they can.