Beyond facilitation and inhibition: a configurational mechanism study of cognitive transitions in human–AI collaboration
Khairul Nizam Osman
Ongoing debates in higher education regarding whether artificial intelligence should be further integrated or deliberately constrained call for empirical research that offers a more explanatory analytical framework. However, existing studies on the human-AI collaboration (HAC) paradox are largely grounded in a binary logic of facilitation versus inhibition, leaving the dynamic mechanisms underlying complex cognitive processes insufficiently explored. To address this issue, this study adopts a di