{"id":590113,"date":"2026-05-18T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590113\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:39:08","slug":"ai-could-make-humans-less-intelligent-warns-royal-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590113\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Generative AI products that can respond to increasingly complex prompts with text, images, video or audio continue to be developed at pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chatbots have evolved from simple assistants into chatty companions, image generators have become dangerously good at making photorealistic content and new advanced models <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2ev24yx4rmo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are said to be surfacing decades-old software bugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Such advances, praised and scrutinised in equal measure, are still also accompanied by warnings to users of the tech&#8217;s limitations and dangers of relying on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodgers said with previous online tools such as Wikipedia, &#8220;if you were interested in something you could perhaps go back to a fundamental source and check it&#8230; and see whether or not you found something that was reliable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Such information can be omitted in quick AI responses, he added, meaning &#8220;you&#8217;re getting more and more distanced from relatable or checkable information&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nevertheless, generative AI tools that present us with information we do not have to find ourselves are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI Overviews have now replaced snippets or lists of links at the top of Google search results, with similar experiments appearing on social platforms like TikTok and X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Generative AI products that can respond to increasingly complex prompts with text, images, video or audio continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590113","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=590113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}