Principlev1PR-1259
Use AI to hold complexity and prior reasoning during…
Use AI to hold complexity and prior reasoning during pressure situations rather than to generate solutions, because pressure increases susceptibility to authoritative suggestions while decreasing capacity to evaluate them.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from cognitive resources depleting under sustained use (Directed Attention as Depletable Resource), acute stress degrading prefrontal function (Under acute stress, the prefrontal cortex degrades…), and bias blind spot (Bias Blind Spot Asymmetry—inability to detect influence on own judgment). The principle prescribes a specific AI use pattern—retrieval rather than generation during pressure—that is actionable across decision support contexts.