Newsroom (NZ), "When students' brains go quiet": https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/02/when-students-brains-go-quiet/
The lede is spot-on: "Students starting to learn with AI is the difference between using a calculator after understanding math versus never learning math because calculators exist"
Even with a bias in favor of (the LLMs pretending to be) AI being effective tools when in expertly knowledgeable hands, the conclusion of it being harmful in general is inescapable.
Related, if you did never learn math because calculators exist, then you don't know that your simple calculator lies to you with problems like "3 + 4 x 5", let alone how or why.
(It's operator precedence that simple calculators are designed to ignore, which is why they answer my example with 35, while advanced calculators and machine-free math both answer with 23.)
