Cognitive Commons in the Age of Generative Intelligence: A Heterodox Appraisal of the Knowledge Erosion Hypothesis
The proposition that agentic artificial intelligence may precipitate a depletion of collective cognitive capital has circulated with unusual velocity in both scholarly and public discourse. The present paper offers a deliberately heterodox reading of the dynamic model advanced by Acemoglu, Kong and Ozdaglar (2026). Rat...