United Kingdom, May 18 -- The rise of artificial intelligence systems that instantly answer questions and solve problems could reduce human intelligence and curiosity, the Royal Observatory Greenwich has warned.

Paddy Rodgers, director of the Royal Museums Greenwich group, said society risked losing key habits of questioning and independent thinking if people became overly dependent on AI-generated answers.

Rodgers said: "A reliance solely on instant answers risks losing the habits of questioning and evaluation that underpin knowledge, expertise and innovation."

The warning comes as the Observatory undergoes a major transformation project called First Light, which aims to celebrate more than 350 years of scientific discovery and astron...