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.
Funny, so never would your brain be wrong? You never ever have to reference a book or wiki or anything for your knowledge? You must be a special kind of person then, and one who quickly wouldn’t have new information.
Since you know what 2 x 2 is because you know how to multiply, it’s pretty easy to go ‘hmm, that doesn’t seem correct, let me try something else here’.
But you do not have domain level knowledge of all subjects, and can’t memorize everything. Perhaps you know there are resources for that, and it’s more important to know how to access and synthesize information rather than stuff it into a squishy brain that more often than not get’s ‘memories’ incorrect.
if you don’t know anything, how do you know the information in the resource is correct or if it’s false?
you’re point out the very problem with AI dependency, it’s that people are getting flase information, and think it’s true because they have none of their own knowledge with which to compare and contrast it to verify it’s veracity.
I don’t understand this stupid ass attitude that ‘well if you can’t memorize everything ever what is the point of memorizing anything ever’. Like… seriously? You realize knowing how to drive… is an act of memory right? You know where the controls are, you know what they do. Can AI teach you to drive, can a book? No, only direct experience through practice teaching you it.
That’s what memory is, it’s experience. If you don’t experience things, you don’t know them.