It's as if some notable proportion of humanity suddenly switched to eating nothing but vaguely food-shaped plastic, then a study concluded that that might have negative effects nutritionally.

No shit?

no shit!

You mean the computer program that removes the critical thinking aspect of school instruction is having detrimental effects on americas children and their excecutive functions? Say it ain't so.

If your kid becomes dependent on you to continue wiping his ass well into his 30s, thats a failure of the parent. We are raising a generation of students who are dependent on machine statistics, not reason, to decide whats correct and right. God help us all.

It's important to have these studies, even though the result is predictable. People who want to move toward restricting AI in schools need something more than anecdotes to point to as justification.

Back in my day, we had to do homework ourselves...

I've been interviewing software engineers for many years, and this was the first year the "AI natives" started graduating and applying for jobs.

Never had such a high rate of people completely unable to write one line of code in a language that appears on their CV, it's been about 50% in the last few months where I had to end the interview during the warmup question.

Replace “school” with any place that ai is used and this headline holds true.

Edit: spelling

No shit, Sherlock.

Well, no shit.

Fork found in kitchen

Grok is that true?

Just wait until you find out how many teachers are relying on it

Study says sky is blue. Study says eating food is necessary for survival. Study says your mom is smokin'. More on this and other shit we already knew at 11.

When I was in year 12 of high school last year, some students attempted to use ChatGPT to write their practice exams for them. Mind you, these practice exams are the same as proper state mandated exams, where there are to be zero electronics used whatsoever unless it’s a disability aid, but the practice ones are also just that, to practice your skills, not to write it off as some worthless obligation.

There were actually heaps more of these students who entirely used LLMs for their assignments, would be made to rewrite them because it’s AI written, then proceed to have ChatGPT write it again and pass it through a ‘humaniser’ which just made it unreadable. It’s alarming that these people are willing to stop using their mind at all just because some service from half way across the world wrote an essay better than they could before.

I use AI to my advantage, as long as it's still at the "free until you're addicted" stage. I found that it's particularly good as a language teacher - learning new languages is one of my hobbies.

However, i am over 70 and will not fall into the "let AI tell me what to think and then think it" trap; i can see through it. This ability should be taught first at school, before the kids can use the useful side of the tool. But most teachers themselves are used to make the kids think what they want them to think, so I doubt that it will work.

"may?"

2 things:

1. The article is from Jan-2026;
2. This is the actual article.

The way I see it, AI is just another log on the fire, although it is indeed a big log. The use of laptops and the prevalence of smartphones all damaged kids’ attention spans, then came the advent of short form content which further degraded their ability to stay focused and now we have AI slop summarizing what we see with our own eyes and taking agency away from their very brains. Somewhere along the line we convinced ourselves that more tech is good for education, and I think that needs to be rethought. We need to get kids back to reading and writing the old school way. There’s neuropsychological benefits to it that you just don’t get from typing or scrolling on computers. And this problem exists even outside of the classroom or kids. It’s a problem with all generations. I’m noticing just as much mental decline in older populations as younger ones.

My grade 4 teacher let us cheat on multiplication tables which still has me screwed up for doing multiplication and division in my head

Headline within the decade:

Study says AI in schools may be doing more harm than good

Because why would removing all creative and high paying proletariat jobs leaving only the worst and lowest paying ones, offloading all critical thought to shitty machines based in drought stricken areas that are destroying water availability, and eliminating online discourse, ever possibly backfire for the proletariat.

AI is not a substitute for experience. Too many people assume that it can be.

File under "Duh"

Cross post to not the onion

In other news, death is inevitable and the sky is blue.

Congrats on whoever got paid to report this.

my hope is that this forceful push of using AI in schools will have the opposite effect.

get tech out of the classrooms that don't need it.

get back to basics that just work. paper, pencil, physical books.

"May"

We already have studies outside of AI on how bad not doing the critical thinking for oneself is. It is literally impossible for this to not be detrimental.

Shocked pikachu meme...

More bullshit grifting from state propagandists.

This kind of phony science is not helping.

pretty sure computers in general are doing more harm than good and have been for a while

ipad generation etc

AI is also doing harm to online job searches to, combined with the fact that can read or write.

No shit? Kids shouldn't even have a computer.

Seeing as a recent study uncovered even small amounts of screen time during the curriculum results in worsened reading comprehension amongst other things, I don't see how this study has any worth.