Students who use AI generally score worse at school
TL;DR
Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight boost, especially among students taught to critically assess how well the AI tools perform. The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) takes data from countries around the world every few years.
Nauti's Take
The 2025 PISA data is the first solid evidence of how AI actually lands in classrooms, and it points to a genuine opportunity: students trained to check AI answers critically outscore their peers. The risk sits with everyone else, who hand the task off and skip the practice that builds the skill.
For schools the takeaway is that prompt literacy and source checking belong in the curriculum before tablets with chatbots get handed out.
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