We Built AI Without a Control Group — And Now We Can Never Know What It Did to Us
The largest cognitive experiment in human history was deployed globally without preserving our ability to measure its effects. Every study attempting to assess AI’s impact on human capability is now contaminated before it begins. I. The Standard We Violated Every meaningful scientific experiment requires a control group. Not for ethical decoration. For epistemological necessity. You … We Built AI Without a Control Group — And Now We Can Never Know What It Did to Us