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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Yeah, that's all stuff you memorized. And you will memorize any recipie you cook regularly because... that's how memory works.

I swear 90% of the 'anti memorization' people here don't even know what memory is. They are under the delusion it's like being able to recite a poem line by line... and how that's stupid and useless... well the only way you can even argue that, or talk is because you know how language works and how to make an argument... both things you've memorized.

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