This is a study of what are obviously early adopters of Anthropic's AI by students in the U.S., so it's a glimpse, and not an authoritative sample, as the authors readily acknowledge. There are some interesting observations, for example, the uses AI is put to by students in different disciplines; computing science students will ask the AI to create or analyze code, while social sciences students will ask the AI to explain theories. I wonder, though, whether the sample didn't capture a fair number of teachers, because the two types of 'collaborative' use seem suspiciously like teaching tasks: "teach programming fundamentals with Python examples" and "provide feedback and revision for student writing assignments".
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