TIL that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just published a report on what AI is doing to education

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/71499854 [https://lemmy.zip/post/71499854] > 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/ [https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/]