Wu et al. 2025 and Bastani et al. 2025 converge on a consistent pattern across workplace and classroom experiments: GenAI collaboration boosts immediate performance, but the gains do not persist once the AI is removed—independent performance and intrinsic motivation deteriorate instead.
Wu et al. show the performance gain failing to persist and intrinsic motivation declining but not that independent performance deteriorated, while Bastani et al. show performance deteriorating after removal but report nothing about intrinsic motivation, so the claimed convergent deterioration of both is overstated.
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“collaboration with GenAI enhanced immediate task performance. However, this performance augmentation effect did not persist in subsequent tasks performed independently by humans”
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“when access is subsequently taken away, students actually perform worse than those who never had access (17% reduction in grades for GPT Base)”
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