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Two-Year Study Finds Banning AI From Classrooms Leaves Students Worse Off
Key Takeaways
- Law professor Thibault Schrepel of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ran the same three-group experiment in 2024 (66 students) and 2025 (164 participants) in his Law of AI course.
- Students barred from ChatGPT finished last both years, making mostly superficial wording edits and hitting what the researcher calls 'idea exhaustion' after 10-15 minutes.
- The unguided AI group accepted ChatGPT revisions largely without question and every subgroup kept at least one misleading or legally extraneous term.
- The trained group, taught legal prompt engineering and accuracy checking, scored far above the others in 2024, but the advantage nearly vanished in 2025 as chatbot familiarity grew.
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