{"id":186567,"date":"2026-02-11T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:35:17","slug":"we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"We should be fighting artificial distraction \u2013 not artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/opinion\/comment\/2026\/02\/12\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/\">We should be fighting artificial distraction \u2013 not artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/opinion\/comment\/2026\/02\/12\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/opinion\/comment\/2026\/02\/12\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 23:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thenationalnews.com\">www.thenationalnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Concerns about large language models (LLMs) posing a threat to traditional pedagogy stem partly from the broader issue of declining attention spans due to social media.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The argument that LLMs are undermining critical thinking overlooks trends evident before AI&#8217;s rise, such as those influenced by the internet in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>While some view LLMs as fostering passivity, they actually offer tailored learning and support that can enhance cognitive ability when deep attention is maintained.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Social media companies&#8217; profit models focus on short engagement, which has fragmented attention spans and reduced sustained learning habits long before LLMs became prominent.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To address these underlying issues, regulators should focus on the problem of attention fragmentation caused by social media, not on artificially limiting the use of LLMs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Comparisons to drugs draw parallels between social media&#8217;s addictive nature and the need for regulatory and educational intervention to support sustained attention and deep cognitive processing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ultimately, protecting human intelligence in the age of LLMs means combatting artificial distractions presented by social media rather than focusing narrowly on AI tools.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should be fighting artificial distraction \u2013 not artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/opinion\/comment\/2026\/02\/12\/we-should-be-fighting-artificial-distraction-not-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-11 23:06:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/resizer\/v2\/BKC3PZ6Y2ZBGXAIYVG4MXIF73A.jpg?smart=true&auth=e80bbfb43a2d86cfdd3baada391a471dc1fa5a281efb1bac276db934bbb235e1&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186569,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186567\/revisions\/186569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}