New research shows intellectual humility predicts who can spot misinformation. Not intelligence or education. Character. The ability to be wrong. When I was seven, I insisted the moon was following our car, certain I was right. That certainty reflects our cultural challenge today. We don't lack information. We lack the character capacity to change our minds when evidence contradicts what we want to believe.

AI just eliminated one of psychology's most reliable cognitive biases and replaced it with something far more dangerous. New research reveals that when we use AI tools like ChatGPT, we all become equally overconfident, unable to distinguish between genuine understanding and AI-assisted performance. We're getting smarter, but losing our ability to know what we actually know. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is dead. And we're all standing on Mount Stupid together now.