{"id":242545,"date":"2026-07-12T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or-foe-it-depends\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:00:08","slug":"is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or-foe-it-depends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or-foe-it-depends\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Artificial Intelligence Friend or Foe? It Depends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/za\/blog\/when-disaster-strikes-inside-disaster-psychology\/202607\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or\">Is Artificial Intelligence Friend or Foe? It Depends<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/za\/blog\/when-disaster-strikes-inside-disaster-psychology\/202607\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/za\/blog\/when-disaster-strikes-inside-disaster-psychology\/202607\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-12 11:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.psychologytoday.com\">www.psychologytoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Current State of AI<\/strong>: AI does not generate novel thought independently; instead, it combines learned data patterns or information, potentially leading to misleading information if the source is not validated.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Risk of Passive Consumption<\/strong>: Excessive use of AI may hinder critical thinking, lead to dependence, and even contribute to psychological issues like depression and isolation, similar to excessive social media use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Potential Benefits of AI<\/strong>: AI has the potential to foster critical thinking, empathy, and resilience through its capacity to ask challenging questions rather than provide ready answers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Therapeutic and Empowering Potential<\/strong>: AI can emulate active listening techniques to promote self-improvement and therapeutic change by creating a connection, empathy, and cathartic ventilation, just as influential ancient teachers did.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Artificial Intelligence Friend or Foe? It Depends https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/za\/blog\/when-disaster-strikes-inside-disaster-psychology\/202607\/is-artificial-intelligence-friend-or Publish Date: 2026-07-12 11:48:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn2.psychologytoday.com\/assets\/styles\/manual_crop_1_91_1_1528x800\/public\/teaser_image\/blog_entry\/2026-07\/u_an64dh40g2-ai-8859373_1920.jpg?itok=VRnrn9DD","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242545","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\/242545"}],"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=242545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242547,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242545\/revisions\/242547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}