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Students need AI-free spaces to learn core skills
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In his World view, Marc Schmitt argues that if universities teach students to argue with artificial-intelligence systems and assess their debating skills, and if developers offer learning modes, then students will use such tools as a sparring partner rather than as an oracle (see Nature 657, 575; 2026). Concerns about loss of critical-thinking skills are, he says, “aimed at the wrong object”: as with the calculator, students’ abilities will “come out sharper”.
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