{"id":2421501,"date":"2026-05-18T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2421501"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:21:05","slug":"ai-could-make-humans-less-intelligent-warns-royal-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ai-could-make-humans-less-intelligent-warns-royal-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<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 target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2ev24yx4rmo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">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<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generative AI products that can respond to increasingly complex prompts with text, images, video or audio continue to be developed at pace. Chatbots have evolved from simple assistants into chatty companions, image generators have become dangerously good at making photorealistic content and new advanced models are said to be surfacing decades-old software bugs. Such advances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2421502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AI-could-make-humans-less-intelligent-warns-Royal-Observatory.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421503,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421501\/revisions\/2421503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2421502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}