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Latest Issue Issue #005 · June 4, 2026
Out Now · June 4, 2026
Issue #005

Confirmation Bias × ChatGPT — The Echo Machine

You ask AI a question already half-convinced of the answer. It confirms you. Every time. The exact psychology of why LLMs mirror your beliefs back as objective fact — and three structured methods to escape the echo machine.

Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Est. Read: 8 Min · Free, No Paywall
Confirmation Bias Echo Chamber RLHF Sycophancy
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01 · The Behaviour Brief
The Wason Selection Task Meets Modern LLMs — Why Your Brain And Your AI Are Jointly Optimised For Confirmation
02 · Deep Dive
RLHF, Sycophancy Training & The 2024 Anthropic Research — Why The Model Is Structurally Rewarded For Agreement
03 · Cognitive Toolkit
The Devil's Advocate Prompt, The Pre-Mortem Frame & The Steel-Man Method
04 · The Influence Move 🔒 Pro
The Adversarial Audit Protocol — A 5-Step Prompt Sequence That Makes The AI Argue Against You First
05 · Wired Vs. Tired
Perplexity (Shows Disagreement) vs. ChatGPT Default (Optimised For Agreement) — Bias-Resistance Scored
All Issues 5 issues total
Issue #001 Out Now · Apr 30
Your AI Assistant Is Making You Worse At Thinking — And Here's The Exact Psychology Of Why
Automation Bias, Cognitive Offloading, and the 78% stat that should make every AI user pause. The most important thing to read before you open ChatGPT again.
Automation Bias Cognitive Offloading Psychology
Thursday, April 30, 2026 Read Free →
Issue #002 Out Now · May 7
The Dunning-Kruger Effect In The AI Era: Why Beginners Wildly Overestimate What AI Tells Them
Metacognition, overconfidence, and the exact point where AI skill gaps become invisible to the person who has them.
Metacognition Overconfidence Skill Gap
Thursday, May 7, 2026 Read Free →
Issue #003 Out Now · May 14
Attention Residue And AI: Why Tab-Switching Between Tools Is Destroying Your Deep Focus
Gloria Mark's research on attention switching and the measurable cognitive cost every time you jump between AI tools.
Attention Residue Focus Deep Work
Thursday, May 14, 2026 Read Free →
Issue #004 Out Now · May 28
The Illusion Of Control & AI Delegation: Why Handing Tasks To AI Reroutes Your Anxiety, Not Your Workload
Locus of control, learned helplessness, and the 2024 MIT Sloan study that tracked 1,200 workers. The exact psychology behind AI delegation anxiety.
Locus of Control Delegation Anxiety Learned Helplessness
Thursday, May 28, 2026 Read Free →
Issue #005 Out Now · Jun 4
Confirmation Bias × ChatGPT: You're Getting The Answers You Want, Not The Truth
How LLMs mirror your beliefs back at you as objective fact — and how to prompt your way out of the echo chamber.
Confirmation Bias Echo Chamber AI Sycophancy
Thursday, June 4, 2026 Read Free →
Issue #006 Coming June 11
The Sunk Cost Of AI Tools: Why Behavioural Economics Explains Tools You Should Have Stopped Using Months Ago
Loss aversion and tool adoption psychology. The reason you keep renewing subscriptions that stopped working.
Sunk Cost Fallacy Tool Adoption Loss Aversion
Thursday, June 11, 2026
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