Students who do not use AI chatbots for schoolwork are outperforming those who do, according to the OECD’s flagship educational report, providing some of the widest-ranging evidence yet that the technology could be hurting children’s learning.
Students who say they never or almost never use AI to draft texts for writing assignments scored 509 on a science test, according to the report, compared with 481 for students using AI for that purpose every day or almost every day. The 28-point gap, adjusted for socio-economic status, corresponds to roughly a year and a half of teaching.