AI’s impact on cognitive ability: MIT study reveals more troubling data

Yet another study shows that the more you let artificial intelligence do the thinking for you, the less capable you are on your own. This time, researchers at MIT tested how relying on AI to tell fake news apart from the truth impacted users’ ability to identify misinformation on their own. Treating AI chatbots as a news source is increasingly common, particularly among young people. Recent reports from Pew Research Center show that one in five teenagers in the U.S. get their news from chatbots, while one in five adults under age 50 report using AI for their news at least sometimes. The stu...