{"id":314,"date":"2025-04-19T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:07:22","slug":"dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence-artificial-intelligence-ai-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us\u2019: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This erosion of critical thinking is compounded by the AI-driven algorithms that dictate what we see on social media. \u201cThe impact of social media on critical thinking is enormous,\u201d says Gerlich. \u201cTo get your video seen, you have four seconds to capture someone\u2019s attention.\u201d The result? A flood of bite-size messages that are easily digested but don\u2019t encourage critical thinking. \u201cIt gives you information that you don\u2019t have to process any further,\u201d says Gerlich.<\/p>\n<p>By being served information rather than acquiring that knowledge through cognitive effort, the ability to critically analyse the meaning, impact, ethics and accuracy of what you have learned is easily neglected in the wake of what appears to be a quick and perfect answer. \u201cTo be critical of AI is difficult \u2013 you have to be disciplined. It is very challenging not to offload your critical thinking to these machines,\u201d says Gerlich.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/19\/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence\">www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/19\/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This erosion of critical thinking is compounded by the AI-driven algorithms that dictate what we see on social media. \u201cThe impact of social media on critical thinking is enormous,\u201d says Gerlich. \u201cTo get your video seen, you have four seconds to capture someone\u2019s attention.\u201d The result? A flood of bite-size messages that are easily digested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}