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.
You can? That’s impressive. Because you multiplication tables do nothing for you when you start getting into multi digit calculations. The important part is learning how to conduct multiplication, then after that you often will let a tool do it for you.
So now you moved the goal posts.
How about this example. It isn’t a problem if a family doctor has to do research an odd case. It is actually preferable that they do.
But I would hope that someone working in the ER isn’t googling procedures when loved ones are bleeding out and minutes away from death.
And quarterbacks need to know plays. Lots of information is best left memorized and in the head. And computers and tools like the internet can’t be taken for granted that they will always be there.
Power failures, computer ransomware, etc.