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Instrumental succession: agency drifts from users toward AI systems
Aug 25, 2026SOURCE: frontiersin.org
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, agency migration means fewer meaningful choices—unless institutions and networks are designed to keep humans in the control loop.
A psychology paper frames AI uptake as a stepwise handoff of decision agency, not simple tool use. The wire view: this is phase transition signaling—the inversion of mind-directed control over time.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.