30 Oct 2025

Is increasing use of AI damaging students' learning ability?

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 30 October 2025
Humanoid robot in the classroom with a green chalkboard.

OK - we're not quite here yet, but what's the impact of an increasing use of AI in the classroom? Photo: 123RF/Alexander Limbach

Tech correspondent Alex Sims focuses on the increasing use of artificial intelligence in classrooms and lecture halls - is it helping or harming? 

She looks at an MIT study into what's happening in students' brains when they use AI and another Oxford University report that drew on young people's own reported experiences of learning shaped by AI.

Alex Sims is a Professor in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland Business School and an expert on blockchain technology, copyright law and consumer law

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