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summermusic 3 days ago

I can see the 2040 study already: “Schoolchildren who did not use AI in primary school show higher outcomes”

Gigachad 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are so many things as a kid I did not agree with or understand but was forced to do anyway, and now as an adult am glad. Right down to being forced to wear a hat and sunscreen (in Australia).

If I had ChatGPT as a kid I would have learned nothing.

shoopadoop 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/gen-z-cheating-homework-schoo...

Higher homework scores, but _substantially_ worse test results.

About what you'd expect, right? Friction is important for learning. Make the process too smooth and it slides right off the brain.

broodbucket 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's already beginning. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12232635/

someothherguyy 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a lot of these studies with technology, etc, are concerned with outcomes in primary/secondary(high) school, which, tbf, no one gives a fuck about, as life outcomes are what matters

a great harm in human society is overconfident extrapolation, especially when treating humans as analogous to weather elements

however, there is literature that explores this aspect, but not relative to what we know right now (and if it is a global trait, does it matter at the general population level?)

kolinko 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I’d bet the opposite. There were some poor researches trying to confirm your guess

anonymars 3 days ago | parent [-]

What's your reasoning? Did iPads/Chromebook exposure make younger people better or worse at computers?

Maybe if there are education-tailored AI models strictly limited to explaining and never giving the answer, but even then, how will you know when it's wrong?

tartoran 3 days ago | parent [-]

Perhaps when AI is better to just guide the student to slove a problem rather than spell out the answer for them. In that sense an AI tutor that is well designed for this specific task would be infinitely patient and explain in many ways till the student gets it. We're not there yet so I applaud the current ban.