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

by summermusic 16d ago

kolinko 16d ago
I’d bet the opposite. There were some poor researches trying to confirm your guess
- anonymars 16d ago
  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 16d ago
    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.
broodbucket 16d ago
It's already beginning. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12232635/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12232635/
Gigachad 16d ago
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 16d ago
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/gen-z-cheating-homework-school-exam-scores-crash-post-literate-society-incentives/ 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.
someothherguyy 16d ago
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?)

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

kolinko 16d ago

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

anonymars 16d ago
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 16d ago
  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.

broodbucket 16d ago

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

Gigachad 16d ago

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 16d ago

https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/gen-z-cheating-homework-school-exam-scores-crash-post-literate-society-incentives/ 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.

someothherguyy 16d ago

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?)