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.
I feel for you. I’m sure for authors, publishers, and consumers that such books and reviews have lost all credibility if sloppers can generate fakes with ease. It’s difficult to know whats real and can be trusted versus what’s just wasting our time.
Without a doubt.
And people who don’t know any better will believe what AI says. I see it at work all the time. People producing pages and pages of slop.
People join calls, output AI notes that clearly show they weren’t paying attention at all.