AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

This article is about the Economist's summary of a journal article so we have a (AI?) summary of a summary. Not very helpful. Here are a couple of better references:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

https://archive.is/w1eng

Also note the findings are more nuanced than may appear on the surface.

Students seem to optimize for local maxima/short-term rewards (homework scores) at the expense of the global maximum/long-term rewards (learning).

The article does not relate AI usage for homework to exam score drops.

It tries to link them together with no obvious cause and effect.

The score could have dropped due to worse environment at schools or kids who were stuck at home studying online and now in physical locations could not adapt fast enough (meaning, possibly just temporary drops). We do not yet have enough metrics gathered yet.

This type of article bashing AI for the root of any problems, I find it appalling without any evidence.

It's nothing but a conjecture.

We cannot be boosting AI slop like this