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Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests

Researchers compare math progress of almost 1,000 high school students

A draft paper about the experiment was posted on the website of SSRN, formerly known as the Social Science Research Network, in July 2024. Researchers conducted four cycles of this, giving students four 90-minute sessions of practice time in four different math topics to understand whether AI tends to help, harm or do nothing. They recounted how an overreliance on autopilot led the Federal Aviation Administration to recommend that pilots minimize their use of this technology.

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