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Cardiovascular care requires clinicians and teams to convert multimodal, longitudinal, incomplete, and context-dependent information into action under uncertainty. This Perspective argues that AI should be understood not as a replacement for clinical intuition, but as a cognitive instrument that reshapes how cardiovascular teams perceive, prioritize, reason, decide, communicate, and learn. Building on dual-process theories of clinical reasoning, the manuscript proposes that AI can support both rapid pattern recognition (System 1) and slower analytic reasoning (System 2), while also creating new vulnerabilities when automation bias, alert fatigue, poor explainability, dataset shift, hidden inequity, or responsibility drift distort judgment. 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