Thinking Carefully by Kayuri Patel

I'm Kayuri, a high school junior deeply interested in human psychology and the ways AI is starting to complicate it.

My thinking lives at the intersection of cognitive science, behavioral economics, and AI because the hard questions tend to live there. Why do people remain convinced their choices are their own when the conditions shaping those choices were engineered? How does a technology that operates nothing like a binary system end up being processed by brains that quietly reduce everything to one anyway? I'm drawn to the moments where human behavior stops making surface-level sense and starts making a different kind of sense underneath.

Some of what I write starts with a question I can't drop. Some starts with an experiment I run myself, on AI tools, on the way information is framed, on what happens when you change one variable and watch everything shift.

On my essays: While AI might surface an idea or a source, the writing is entirely my own.