Teaching Mathematics in the Age of AI
Links to research, news, and commentary on the impact of AI, with a focus on undergraduate mathematics education.
Research
- 2026 state of the workplaceby ActivTrak
- Measuring the impact of early-2025 AI on experienced open-source developer productivityby Joel Becker et al. (METR)
- Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning: evidence from high school mathematicsby Hamsa Bastani et al.
- Your brain on ChatGPT: accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing taskby Nataliya Kosmyna et al.
- The widening gap: the benefits and harms of generative AI for novice programmersby James Prather et al.
Events
- Future of mathematics symposiumby Stanford University
News
- Professor hides white font in midterm, catches students using AI in the stupidest way possibleby Frank Landymore
- Brown professor suspects majority of his class used AI to cheatby Emma Whitford
- Jagged intelligence: the dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMsby Melanie Mitchell
- My students can't readby Tyler Jagt
- I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching momentby Micah Nathan
- AI-generated scientific hypotheses lag human ones when put to the testby Jeffrey Brainard (Science)
- AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivityby Kate Niederhoffer et al. (Harvard Business Review)
Commentary
- Why does everyone hate AI?by Paul Krugman
- A new consciousness of mathematicsby Apoorva Panidapu
- How Go players disempower themselves to AIby Ashe Vazquez Nuñez
- The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.by Minas Karamanis
- Is Google making us stupid?by Nicholas Carr
- What happened when I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English classroomby Piers Gelly
- Could AI slow science?by Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan