Position: Artificial Intelligence Needs Meta Intelligence -- the Case for Metacognitive AI

arXiv:2605.15567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues for metacognition as a general design principle for creating more accurate, secure, and efficient AI. The metacognitive solution involves systems monitoring their own states and judiciously allocating resources depending on each problem instance's difficulty or cost of mistakes. Drawing inspiration both from past work on resource-rational AI and from well-documented metacognitive strategies in psychology and cognitive sci