How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress

The concept of System 1 and System 2 thinking was introduced by the late Nobel Prize-winning Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman, in his best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011). According to Kahneman, System 1 thinking in humans is intuitive and automatic. It allows people to make snap decisions based on previous experiences (thi... See more

One way of thinking about this is Daniel Kahneman’s simple model of thinking: System 1 and System 2. System 1 thinking is fast and intuitive. Current AI models’ pattern recognition and next-token prediction are good examples of this. System 2 thinking is slow and analytical, akin to genuine reasoning and understanding. It is System 2 thinking where... See more