{
  "id": 3488044,
  "title": "The epistemic debt of generative AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/the-epistemic-debt-of-generative-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature Machine Intelligence",
    "slug": "nature-machine-intelligence",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01294-w"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01294-w When authors use generative AI in cognitive tasks, without spending time and effort to understand the output, a gap opens between what they present and what they can defend. This gap widens as further work is built on top, resulting in epistemic debt.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}