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.
what is the ‘real world’ then?
am I in a fake world, because memorizing shit is what I do all day. I have to do that because it’s my job to know things and teach those things ti other people… I guess my 150K IT security job is ‘fake’ though, right?
how can you find a fact if you don’t eve know what a fact is or isn’t? what if i google a multiplication table and it tells me 2 x 2 = 16? am i suppose to just take that as the ‘answer’ even though I have memorized it’s 4?