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/

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    24 hours ago

    A college prepetory high school is supposed to and a liberal arts college that is also the goal. So it a bit depends on the institution but the direction has been away from classical learning and philosophy requirements are minimal now.

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      23 hours ago

      Critical thinking should be taught in kindergarten and by first grade kiddos should be able to use evidence to discern their own opinions about a subject and provide proof. Anything else is criminally negligent.

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        20 hours ago

        thats patently unrealistic unless you mean at the most basic level. Elementary logic is basically at the algebraic level.