Relying on AI for help with mentally challenging tasks quickly weakens a person’s intellectual capacity and commitment to see a task through to the end, according to a new study.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Apr 28 2026
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“JAGGED INTELLIGENCE”: HOW SMART IS AI REALLY?
Last summer, an AI correctly answered five of six particularly complex mathematical questions in a competition for gifted students.
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NEW AI THREATENS GLOBAL FINANCIAL STABILITY, OFFICIALS SAY
Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos AI is an immediate threat to global financial stability, officials warned at this month’s joint meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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AI SWARMS CAN STEAL ELECTIONS AND HIJACK DEMOCRACIES
Online personalities created entirely by AI, and so realistic as to be indistinguishable from the real thing, will swarm social media and sway elections, computer scientist Kevin Leyton-Brown at the University of British Columbia argues in an essay published in Science.
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AN AI THAT EVOLVES ON ITS OWN
AI engineers at China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University say they have built an AI that continuously improves itself with no human guidance or input.