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.
Save time on learning? Isn’t that where you should take time?
no, silly, learning is a waste of time.
half the people on lemmy basically think education is stupid and pointless unless it immediately and directly needs to employment. they’d rather we stick 13 year olds in internships.
If they only have 5 minutes of homework tonight, then that should be OK.