Last year MIT Media Lab's study on cognitive debt resulting from AI tools shows that people who used one of AI tools, in this scenario ChatGPT, for writing and administrative tasks, had their own writing skills decreased, with lower task performance scores. However, since AI tools often hallucinate and provide output, it creates higher motivation to train skills allowing journalists to analyze the output, cross-reference and research sources. This may result in growing need to upskill and work on self-improving other important skills in areas like research, fact-checking and discerning between reality and fiction. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/a-new-study-looks-at-the-skills-journalists-are-losing-and-gaining-because-of-ai-tools/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #journalism #media #research #writing #factchecking #SelfImprovement #MITMediaLab