The Executive Function Prosthesis: AI can help neurodivergent people turn intention into action…
AI is becoming an unregulated cognitive accessibility layer for neurodivergent people. The question is no longer whether people will offload memory, planning, sequencing, emotional translation, and task initiation to machines. They already are. The question is whether that offloading becomes liberation, dependency, surveillance, or another workplace productivity trap.
From “NPC” to Sage: How Humans Shift Across Instinctive, Procedural, Reflective, and Transcendent Cognitive Modes Under Changing Field Conditions.
The human mind is not a single lantern burning with one steady flame. It is a house of lamps, some bright, some ancestral, some flickering in rooms we rarely enter by choice. A person does not move through the world in one cognitive mode. The mind changes weather.