{"id":242854,"date":"2026-07-13T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/the-real-risk-of-artificial-intelligence-is-dependency\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:50:32","slug":"the-real-risk-of-artificial-intelligence-is-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/the-real-risk-of-artificial-intelligence-is-dependency\/","title":{"rendered":"The real risk of artificial intelligence is dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/article\/636372\">The real risk of artificial intelligence is dependency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/article\/636372\">https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/article\/636372<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 12:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.chinadailyasia.com\">www.chinadailyasia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI is increasingly integrated into education, work, and daily life, raising the question of how it should be utilized without diminishing essential human capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The debate about AI in teaching is crucial because universities are where students develop critical skills like careful reading, clear thinking, coherent writing, precise speaking, and sound judgment.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns arise when AI is used to bypass the effort required for genuine learning, leading to dependency rather than genuine understanding.<\/li>\n<li>An example from Brown University shows alarming results when AI was used to produce remarkably high exam scores, followed by a significant drop when in-person exams were reinstated.<\/li>\n<li>The broader issue is that while AI can significantly improve productivity and support decision-making, indiscriminate use can lead to dependency, reduce genuine skill acquisition, displace work, concentrate power, and consume extensive resources.<\/li>\n<li>The key role of educators is to ensure students develop a profound understanding of subjects, ensuring that AI augments rather than replaces learning.<\/li>\n<li>To preserve the learning process, educators can implement methods such as encouraging oral presentations, using multiple-choice questions that test comprehension, and requiring handwritten answers to maintain focus and understanding.<\/li>\n<li>The larger societal responsibility is to safeguard human capability, ensuring AI enhances human judgment and creativity instead of undermining them.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately, the future belongs to those who can effectively use tools like AI while maintaining and enhancing their own understanding and judgment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real risk of artificial intelligence is dependency https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/article\/636372 Publish Date: 2026-07-13 12:24:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/campus-cdhk.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com\/store_manager\/photo_pre\/13\/191\/33\/6078bc82-dc7f-40c7-9f4f-0c239af2766a\/high_wm.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242854","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\/242854"}],"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=242854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242856,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242854\/revisions\/242856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}