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Instant AI answers could undermine people's intelligence, warns Royal Observatory
The Royal Observatory Greenwich has warned that overreliance on AI tools providing instant answers risks eroding human habits of questioning and evaluation, which underpin knowledge, expertise, and innovation. While acknowledging AI's role in transformative scientific breakthroughs like DeepMind's AlphaFold2 (which earned a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), experts such as Reid Hoffman and academics advocate for responsible use of AI as a collaborative tool rather than a replacement for human critical thinking.
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