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/

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    I disagree. For me it's helped with curiosity as it lets me explore topics and problem solving I haven't been able to because I don't know how to fully finish something. Oh there is this great github project I would like to run, but it's linux only, is it possible to integrate this on my mac and add the following to it. Sure enough, LLM helps get you through it, you document the process, and boom now you have learned something new.

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