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.
AI is like the microwave. Sure it a huge time saver to eat a microwave meal but that doesn’t make a good cook obsolete.
Absolutely agree. But the car certainly made horses overall obsolete when it comes to standard transportation.
AI isn’t a car and will never be
The people who are pushing that idea are the ones who will lose billions when it all comes down.
I don’t think the Chinese will lose anything. They are investing knowing AI will be the future and making it cheap and accessible. Same thing they are doing with EVs and green technology.
Unless they persuade enough gullible people (or corrupt governments) to eat the losses for them. Which is what they are trying.