







What a new research study tells us about AI's impact on human learning & skills development
How does AI impact skill formation?
Two days ago, the Anthropic Fellows program released a paper called How AI Impacts Skill Formation. Like other papers on AI before it, this one is being treated as proof that AI makes you slower and dumber. Does it prove that?

More Than a Tool
What We Learned from a Year of Conversations About AI

AI in the workplace vs. AI in education
Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?

How Americans see AI impacting human skills; its role in science, matchmaking, religion and more
Majorities don’t want AI to give advice about religion or love. But many say AI should help forecast weather, search for financial crimes, develop medicine and more.

Does AI stop children from learning?
New data show the peril and promise of the technology

What Parents Need to Know About AI in the Classroom | Stanford HAI
From immersive learning and personalized tutors to lesson plans and grading, AI is everywhere in K-12 education.

Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.

What the Studies Say About How AI Affects Your Brain: A (Very Big) Compilation
The entire literature clearly points to a single surprising finding

Report
MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler
After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the
AI’s Next Chapter Requires Human Expertise
The future of AI doesn’t just require technical skills; it demands deep human expertise, writes Annie K. Lamar.

A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter

Developing our position on AI - Blog - Recurse Center
This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.

Has This Report EXPOSED THE TRUTH About AI Assisted Software Development?