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📄 Critical AI Tutors: Empower or Enslave?
> **Critical AI Tutors: Empower or Enslave?** — A position paper presented at the AIED 2025 workshop that issues a stark warning: unchecked use of AI tutors risks creating a generation of cognitively …
📄 LLM Fallacy Misattribution in Education
> **The LLM Fallacy** is a cognitive attribution error in which individuals misinterpret LLM-assisted outputs as evidence of their own independent competence — producing a systematic gap (∆C) between …
📄 Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: Evidence from high school mathematics
This landmark field experiment is among the first randomized controlled trials to causally demonstrate that **unguarded generative-AI tutoring can harm skill acquisition**, not merely fail to help. Co…
📄 Why Put in This Much Effort?": How AI Availability Shapes Students’ Motivation in Introductory Programming
**Tran, Harper & Price (2026)** examine a pressing motivational paradox in contemporary computing education: the ready availability of AI tools that can complete programming assignments undermines stu…
📄 It's OK Because...": The Wild West of Student Rationalization of AI Use in Academic Writing
Generative AI challenges academic integrity not only by enabling students to delegate substantial portions of their academic work, but also by blurring the ethical boundaries by which students disting…
📄 Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI interaction
This preregistered large-scale study (N = 1,237) investigates whether people are well-calibrated in estimating the time savings from AI assistance on simple cognitive tasks. The key finding is a **spe…
📄 The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks
Across three pre-registered studies (N=2,691), this paper documents systematic miscalibration in how people perceive their own [[generative-ai|AI]] usage. The authors find that people not only use AI …
📄 Distinguishing performance gains from learning when using generative AI
This *Nature Reviews Psychology* piece draws a critical distinction that has been under-theorized in AIED research: The authors argue that generative AI easily boosts performance but often bypasses th…