Submitted 5 months ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03340-w
Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.
like like saying embracing google. its a reality regardless so need to deal with it. Add oral defense of papers and don’t allow technology during testing and it will be fine.
Professors started writing books for the students to study. Will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Sadly University of Florida has also started becoming a sort of “AI first” university 😣
Placing my bets on stop thinking as universities have not been about education for a long time.
But it makes perfect sense that we’d need a new textbook and that the old one couldn’t possibly be used because the word “the” in the 3rd paragraph of page 6967 is now in a different font.
Oh, that’s not the only thing that’s changed; they’ve also randomly re-ordered the questions at the end of the chapters so that the old one COULDN’T possibly be used.
ngcbassman@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Answering your question, there are already studies that are saying that AI has negative effects in the students, they are not getting smarter.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The place where I work has recently introduced to AI but I’d be amazed if the staff could become more stupid. They already don’t know what an ampersand is, so I can’t imagine the bar can get any lower, it’s already a tripping hazard.
When they redid the web blockers a couple of days ago it accidentally blocked corporate co-pilot which is the only AI they’re authorised to use (as if it’ll make any difference at all to data protection), the amount of whining I got about it was unbelievable. Why can’t they just go back to doing their job the way that they presumably were doing it before AI?
Sxan@piefed.zip 5 months ago
I’ve seen several studies which say using AI makes you more stupid. Þese are the ones I could find quickly in my bookmarks, but it’s not a comprehensive list:
MIT study
The Lancet
Bonus link (not about making users more stupid, but related).