{"id":3902,"date":"2026-04-17T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/2026\/04\/17\/is-der-spiegel-making-us-stupid\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:36:51","slug":"is-der-spiegel-making-us-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/2026\/04\/17\/is-der-spiegel-making-us-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Is *Der Spiegel* making us stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new month and another terrifying Der Spiegel cover. Following the cover from late February<\/a>\u2014which played on everyone\u2019s fears with a killer robot\u2014Der Spiegel is at it again. \u201cIs AI making us stupid?\u201d asks the German weekly magazine in a rather questionable illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Headlines like these are nothing new. As early as the summer of 2008, the American magazine The Atlantic<\/em> asked, \u201cIs Google Making Us Stupid?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eighteen years later, we all know the answer: No!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2026, the question we\u2019re more likely to ask is: Is Der Spiegel<\/em> making us stupid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new month and another terrifying Der Spiegel cover. Following the cover from late February\u2014which played on everyone\u2019s fears with a killer robot\u2014Der Spiegel is at it again. \u201cIs AI making us stupid?\u201d asks the German weekly magazine in a … Continue reading Is *Der Spiegel* making us stupid?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8770504,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pblxuj-10W","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/futureangst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Spiegel-Dumm.png?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8770504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureangst.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}