Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.
Answering your question, there are already studies that are saying that AI has negative effects in the students, they are not getting smarter.
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by flango@lemmy.eco.br to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03340-w
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ngcbassman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 weeks 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:
Bonus link (not about making users more stupid, but related).
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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?
specialwall@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Sadly University of Florida has also started becoming a sort of “AI first” university 😣
ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Professors started writing books for the students to study. Will students get smarter or stop thinking?
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Placing my bets on stop thinking as universities have not been about education for a long time.
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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.