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Cognitive Sovereignty in the Age of Personalisation Algorithms
Modern personalized systems don't just reduce friction—they increasingly shape what we think about next, optimising for engagement over understanding and quietly eroding “cognitive sovereignty,” the ability to explore and decide independently. The challenge isn't personalization itself, but business models and design defaults that prioritize retention over agency, making it crucial to build systems with transparency, user control, friction where needed, and space for genuine discovery rather than tightly steered attention.
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