The Cognitive Prosthetic: Why AI Usage Disclosure Matters

By Faraz Forghan Parast

Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), University of Victoria, Canada

Large language models have become embedded in scholarly workflows at a pace that outstrips institutional capacity to understand what has changed. This paper argues that generative AI functions as a cognitive and linguistic prosthetic, one that…

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