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Anthropic Education Report: How university students use Claude
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An analysis of a million student conversations, split between asking for answers and working through problems together.
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- The EEG study of 54 essay writers, a preprint not yet peer reviewed, which is worth reading past the headlines. arxiv.org Article Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Nataliya Kosmyna and others (MIT Media Lab)
- The CHI 2025 survey of 319 knowledge workers linking confidence in AI to less critical thinking. microsoft.com Article The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers Hao-Ping Lee, Advait Sarkar and others (Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon)
- A randomised trial showing the same tool can help or hurt learning depending on how people asked it. anthropic.com Article How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic
- The field experiment where students did worse once AI was removed, unless the tutor only gave hints. hamsabastani.github.io Article Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm Learning: Evidence from High School Mathematics Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Alp Sungu and others (University of Pennsylvania)
- What the MIT study does and does not show, and the think-first habit that follows from the evidence. oneusefulthing.org Article Against "Brain Damage" Ethan Mollick (One Useful Thing)
- Reports the Economic Survey's warning, citing MIT and Microsoft, about over-reliance on AI in learning. techcrunch.com Article India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale TechCrunch
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