Whether AI assistance produces durable learning appears to depend on design and context rather than on access alone. Brynjolfsson et al. 2024 found a workplace conversational assistant "facilitates worker learning and improves English fluency," whereas Bastani et al. 2025 found unguarded GPT-4 access harmed student learning—negative effects that were "largely mitigated by the safeguards in GPT Tutor."
The Brynjolfsson quote ('facilitates worker learning and improves English fluency') and Bastani findings (unguarded GPT-4 access harming learning, effects 'largely mitigated by the safeguards in GPT Tutor') are verbatim, directly supporting the design-and-context contrast.
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“We also find evidence that AI assistance facilitates worker learning and improves English fluency, particularly among international agents.”
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“These negative learning effects are largely mitigated by the safeguards in GPT Tutor.”
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