A Wharton economist ran a randomized controlled trial on almost a thousand high school students in Turkey.
— Rimsha Bhardwaj (@heyrimsha) May 21, 2026
The result was so brutal for the AI-in-education narrative that it had to be peer-reviewed by PNAS before people would believe it.
Her name is Hamsa Bastani. She teaches… pic.twitter.com/OZ7kXhRK2c
Update: How does AI harm humans?
from here:
"There are some really high-profile cases that I think are the tip of the iceberg—the teen suicides, AI psychosis, people spending immense amounts of time or money engaging with these AI chatbots that are designed to be incredibly sycophantic. I think those harms are already there."
See Stuart McMillan's Supernormal Stimulus comic for a catalog of vulnerabilities.
Also worth remembering: "The inferior man thinks only of comfort; the superior man thinks only of virtue." - Confucius
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