A committee of professors and students spent 5 months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.

⭕ Study groups are disappearing.

⭕ Office hours are emptying out.

⭕ Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum.

⭕ Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.

The committee warns MIT professors against replacing undergraduate research assistants with AI agents just because they’re cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      yep.

      the terrifying consequences of AI use are the final stages of decades of attacks on education… creating the perfect being. A complete, non-functional idiot that believes everything its told without any thought or consideration, and completely non-functional without their masters grace (the AI)