Your AI Obeys Rules That Expired. So Do You.

You told yourself you would stop. Biting your nails, reaching for your phone the second it buzzes, the road you don't drive anymore that your hands still turn onto. You decided, consciously, with the whole front of your brain, that the rule was retired. And your body kept running it anyway. There is a reason, and it is not weakness. When you repeat an action enough, your brain moves it off the deliberate circuit and onto an automatic one. Wendy Wood , who has spent decades studying this,…