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.
They are used to target locations of things like brain tumors but you are still expected to know the anatomical layout of where you are going and to confirm it makes sense. Go before a courtroom for a malpractice suit and tell them you don’t know anatomy and relied blindly on some AI tool.
AI tools are now common practice in the hospital and are approved by the FDA. Might want to keep up with how rapid the space is changing. COmpnaies are now literally using Claude to accelerate drug development.