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Lecture 5 discusses how the widespread availability of AI content is changing the way we seek and obtain information, communicate with each other, and study and learn.

What you need to understand:

  1. Deepfakes and AI disclosure
  2. AI content overwhelm
  3. The impacts of writing assistance
  4. Correlational and causal evidence for AI impact on human learning

Sample essay questions

How is the use of AI changing the digital commons? Is it eroding or strengthening our information ecosystem?

Is AI affecting our ability to learn? Is it making us dumber, or smarter, or neither?

Reading List

Mazumdar 2026

Gausen 2026

Noroozian 2025

Simon 2025

Waight 2026

Sourati 2026

De Ceci 2026

Kusmegi 2025

Luettgau 2026

Rottger 2024

Yakura 2026

Mofaddel 2026

Pimlico Journal 2025

Doublethink Lab 2026

Stromberg 2026

Liu 2026

Bastani 2025

Tamkin 2026

Kestin 2025

Bartos 2026