When AI performs, what remains? An integrative review of generative AI and cognitive capital in individuals and organizations
arXiv:2610.38647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly entering knowledge work, and its short-term productivity benefits are increasingly documented. Less is known about what happens, over time, to the knowledge, skills and judgment that remain in people and organizations. This integrative narrative review addresses that question through the construct of cognitive capital: the accumulated, renewable and depletable stock of knowledge, cognitive and metaco…