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.
So then teach stuff that AI cant solve for them.
We still teach math that calculators can solve for you. If they don’t understand the foundational stuff how will they understand things too complicated for the AI?
You can still teach it in a way that AI cant, right?
I’m not really sure what you mean by this
You can teach foundational material still. The issue is that if you teach it in a way where students can just AI the answers and not do the work means you arent teaching students. The teaching methodology needs some tinkering.
Don’t just send a bunch of work home with the student and expect them not to use AI. Use classroom time to really hone in those fundamental skills. Work assigned that can be completed outside of the classroom should have an expectation that students can/will use AI to solve the problems.