Most of us now get our information using AI chatbots and search engines. Even Google shows us an AI summary first before guiding us towards the sources it compiled the answers from.
A new study from Yale suggests that while AI-generated answers are fast, convenient, and easy to read, they can also influence our opinions. Daniel Karell, an assistant professor of sociology at Yale, and his team wanted to find out whether reading AI-written summaries of historical events helped people learn better than reading human-written ones.
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To test this, participants were shown short summaries of historical events, some written by humans and others by AI tools like ChatGPT, and then quizzed on what they remembered.
The result? People who read AI-written summaries consistently answered more questions correctly.
Is AI just better at disseminating information than humans?
Karell attributes this to how AI presents information. “It’s
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