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Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

13 September 2026 at 09:27

Law students with stacks of files on their desks use a holographic AI dashboard to analyze legal data.

A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researcher writes, who had assumed that AI without guidance would do more harm than good.

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The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best

30 August 2026 at 10:34

Silhouette of a student at a desk who uses an AI tool to write marketing copy and earns an A+.

GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tested. Other studies suggest that AI-assisted performance without independent thinking does long-term harm.

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