That viral MIT study: Is AI making us smarter or dumber?

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So… is ChatGPT making us dumb? A viral MIT study, what it actually found, and the delicious irony of how we consume research. (Steffi Kieffer, Substack)

Summary

MIT study on AI's impact limited to 9 students, unable to generalize.
Students who relied on ChatGPT then wrote like it, the "contamination effect".
Use AI as a research assistant, not a replacement brain.

posted 23.6.2025 by oler · AI & Journalism

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