Guard cognitive offloading

As AI handles more reasoning and discovery, society needs explicit practices—curricula, design defaults, and cultural norms—that prevent passive outsourcing of thinking. Teach when to rely on AI, require human‑in‑the‑loop learning tasks, and design tools that incentivize active engagement rather than pure consumption. — This reframes AI policy from access and safety to a civic education problem: without guardrails, AI could erode personal competence, cultural curiosity, and democratic judgment.