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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five 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 numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
I cannot explain how terrible it is to see OpenAIโs CEO advocating to use their own AI product to have LESS personal connection with those closest to you: family and kids.
No, donโt use AI to create a podcast about your kids based on their calendars. Talk to your kids, not to AI
This is a superb, extremely relevant article, thank you @mipsytipsy
https://t.co/KmSBQcqsg4
Remember @ponnappa saying how AI compounds everything, the good and the bad.
@abhinav always telling me how it is always the middle path, between optimism and skepticism
i wrote a post about the growing divide between AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts.
wins and costs are both real, but too often fall on different groups of people. when you're only experiencing half the story, it's too easy to write each other off.
https://t.co/qtjrOJA6a0
Hello, Moon. Itโs great to be back.
Hereโs a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl
- Drafted a blog post
- Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours.
- Wow, feeling great, itโs so convincing!
- Fun idea letโs ask it to argue the opposite.
- LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the opposite is in fact true.
- lol
The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.