{"id":325982,"date":"2025-12-20T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:38:08","slug":"experts-warn-ai-is-making-your-brain-work-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/325982\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn AI is making your brain work less"},"content":{"rendered":"

She tells the BBC: “We definitely don’t think students should be using ChatGPT to outsource work”.<\/p>\n

In her view, it’s best used as a tutor rather than just a provider of answers.<\/p>\n

The example she gives is of a student having a back and forth with ChatGPT using the study mode setting.<\/p>\n

You enter the question you’re having difficulty answering and the chatbot can break down its components and help you understand it.<\/p>\n

The example she gives is of a student doing an assignment late at night about a topic they don’t quite understand.<\/p>\n

“[If] you have an upcoming presentation to give and\u2026 it’s midnight, you’re not going to email your [university] tutor and ask for help,” she says.<\/p>\n

“I think the potential is truly there for ChatGPT to accelerate learning when it’s used in a targeted way.”<\/p>\n

But Prof Holmes insists that any student who uses AI tools should be aware of how its reasoning works<\/a> and how the companies providing them handle data. He stresses that results should always be checked.<\/p>\n

“It is not just the latest iteration of the calculator,” he says, describing AI’s far-reaching capabilities and implications.<\/p>\n

“I never say to my students, you shouldn’t use AI\u2026 But what I do try to say is look, we need to understand all these different things about it so that you can make informed decisions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She tells the BBC: “We definitely don’t think students should be using ChatGPT to outsource work”. In her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-325982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}