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LLMs as Cognitive Viruses: Population Dynamics

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Analyzes how LLM use can alter collective cognitive organization with a dynamic, population-level model.

The paper develops a mathematical model to explore how interaction with Large Language Models (LLMs) can alter collective cognitive organization, highlighting the potential for uses of LLMs to become captive cognitive bundles and lead to abandonment of unaided cognition in favor of persistent reliance on LLM-mediated processes. Large language model-mediated practices exhibit bistory-dependent bistability and hysteresis in transitioning forms of cognition On the parameter space of transmission, recovery, and reinforcement coefficients, varying the transition pressure ($\lambda$) that takes…

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