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An encouraging MIT AI report

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Dale Larsen
Fri, Aug 28, 2026 4:04 PM

Hiya,

I normally don’t forward specific reports, but this was so impactful to my current library teaching that I wanted to forward it to you (some of my favorite people 😊) because it is authoritative (MIT authors), it doesn’t have the rhetorics of hype, and it offers practical guidance for our individual teaching and university-level thinking about AI and Education.

MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. (August 13, 2026).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

AI should be used to augment and enhance curiosity, creativity, and learning, not automate them

If learning is (mis)understood primarily as content delivery, then highly responsive AI systems may seem capable of replacing teachers, mentors, peers, collaborators, and the interpersonal dimensions of learning altogether. But while this attitude may be increasingly common, it’s shortsighted.

Dale Larsen, MLS
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
dale.larsen@utah.edumailto:dale.larsen@utah.edu
801-581-8323
Library Guideshttp://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/prf.php?account_id=29154
University Profile Infohttps://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0106131
ORCID infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1751

Dale Larsen, MLS
J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
dale.larsen@utah.edumailto:dale.larsen@utah.edu
801-581-8323
Library Guideshttp://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/prf.php?account_id=29154
University Profile Infohttps://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0106131
ORCID infohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1751

Hiya, I normally don’t forward specific reports, but this was so impactful to my current library teaching that I wanted to forward it to you (some of my favorite people 😊) because it is authoritative (MIT authors), it doesn’t have the rhetorics of hype, and it offers practical guidance for our individual teaching and university-level thinking about AI and Education. MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. (August 13, 2026). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ AI should be used to augment and enhance curiosity, creativity, and learning, not automate them If learning is (mis)understood primarily as content delivery, then highly responsive AI systems may seem capable of replacing teachers, mentors, peers, collaborators, and the interpersonal dimensions of learning altogether. But while this attitude may be increasingly common, it’s shortsighted. Dale Larsen, MLS J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah dale.larsen@utah.edu<mailto:dale.larsen@utah.edu> 801-581-8323 Library Guides<http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/prf.php?account_id=29154> University Profile Info<https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0106131> ORCID info<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1751> Dale Larsen, MLS J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah dale.larsen@utah.edu<mailto:dale.larsen@utah.edu> 801-581-8323 Library Guides<http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/prf.php?account_id=29154> University Profile Info<https://profiles.faculty.utah.edu/u0106131> ORCID info<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-1751>