TECH NEWS

AI is making people less confident in professionals such as doctors and teachers

New research shows 64% of people feel confident challenging professional advice after checking it with AI
Over 45s are less likely to question professional advice
An “expertise recession” has been identified by the survey, conducted by Use.AI

AI is helping many of us call time on taking professional advice without further research, concerning new reports have found.

Research by Use.AI has claimed professional advice from doctors and teachers is now researched further, with nearly two-thirds (64%) of people are now more confident challenging what they have been told.

In addition, an “expertise recession” has been identified, a scenario in which expertise is less sought after in a world where AI can assimilate all information and present a contextual and nuanced response.

Gen X less likely to ask

The survey of 15,428 adults has also revealed other professionals that people are more likely to challenge. Managers, journalists, and economists are included...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to techradar.com. To see the full text click HERE

https://image.theregister.com/5293164.jpg?imageId=5293164&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but is still sufficiently connected to US law enforcement authorities that the FBI was able to help

https://image.theregister.com/5293173.jpg?imageId=5293173&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood

The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline Nothing smarts like a paper cut, but being attacked after leaving an application’s web interface exposed to the internet might be just as painful. Such attacks are the risk to which users of PaperCut

https://image.theregister.com/245345.jpg?imageId=245345&x=0&y=0&cropw=100&croph=100&panox=0&panoy=0&panow=100&panoh=100&width=1200&height=683

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

personal tech One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users ON CALL By the end of the working week it can be tempting to phone it in, but The Register instead works to bring you extra amusement in the form of a new edition of On

https://images.wsj.net/im-05299892/social

Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &

Gen X less likely to ask

Read more

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House