From CNN: At this point in her senior year at Yale University, Amanda knows that many of her classmates turn to AI chatbots to write papers and other homework assignments. But she started noticing something bizarre in her smaller seminar classes: Her classmates sit behind laptops with polished talking points and arguments, but the conversations that follow often fall flat across subjects. In one class, “the conversation came to a halt, and I looked to my left, and I saw someone typing ferociously on their laptop, asking (a chatbot) the question my professor just asked about the reading,” Amanda told CNN.
...Amanda said she was taken aback. Until that day, she didn’t realize that her peers were using chatbots in class and sharing what it spits out in the classroom. Now she notices the impact that tendency is having on class discussions. “Everyone now kind of sounds the same,” she said. “I feel like during my freshman year in college, I would sit in seminars where everyone had something different to contribute. Although people would piggyback off each other, they approached from different angles and offered different commentary.”
As AI becomes increasingly integrated with education, educators and researchers are finding that it may be eroding students’ capacity for original thought and expression. A paper published in March in Trends in Cognitive Sciences found that large language models are systematically homogenizing human expression and thought across three dimensions — language, perspective and reasoning — and students and educators say they are seeing the effects of that trend in their classrooms.
And that makes a lot of students sound the same...
Full story at https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/health/ai-impact-college-student-thinking-wellness.
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