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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What’s missing? The social side. Equity, belonging, and collaboration barely show up in the data even though they’re what determine who feels welcome in CS and who walks away.

Harms as a percentage of each population. 69.6% of instances involved introductory students, 12.0% upper-level undergraduates, 9.3% graduate students, and 9.1% educators

Percentage of harm instances by evidence type within each type of GenAI tool.

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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Only about 1 in 5 papers from 2024 even mention harms. And most discuss hypothesized harms, not ones that were observed or measured. It’s time for research that examines what’s really happening in classrooms, not just what we think might be.

The stacked bar chart shows the proportion of papers based on their highest level of evidence. Papers from 2025 are omitted from this visualization.

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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Most papers focus on benefits such as faster feedback, better explanations, higher grades. But the downsides are real too: • Shallow learning • Over-trust in wrong outputs • Less collaboration • Uneven access

Stacked bar chart showing the percentage of papers that discussed harms of GenAI in computing education. Greyed bars represent papers not analyzed. Papers from 2025 and other excluded works are omitted.

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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Everyone talks about how generative AI helps students. Almost no one asks how it might hurt them. We reviewed 224 papers on GenAI in computing education to see what’s being ignored. Here’s what we found at the @templehci.bsky.social👇 📄 “Beyond the Benefits” — Koli Calling 2025 tinyurl.com/ucfhmfha

Umbrella harms (e.g., Metacognitive) are bolded and represent the total number of instances across all associated sub-harms. Because sub-harms are not mutually exclusive, a single paper may be counted multiple times within an umbrella category if it includes multiple sub-harms with the same type of evidence.

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Temple HCI Lab @templehci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Our recent work shows how AI is undermining social interactions and eroding learning communities! 😬 1. Help exchanges are now largely mediated by AI 2. Help from AI is replacing support from friends Students now feel isolated and receive less mentorship, reducing access to the hidden curriculum

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(PDF) "All Roads Lead to ChatGPT": How Generative AI is Eroding Social Interactions and Student Learning Communities

PDF | The widespread adoption of generative AI is already impacting learning and help-seeking. While the benefits of generative AI are well-understood,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I agree, if it was ok HBO it would be extremely popular. Its a shame apple tv hasnt done a great job marketing it

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When I guest lectured in an undergrad Algorithms class I needed to explain why I was talking about ethics in such a theory-heavy class. I explained the mysterious work in #Severance and asked, don't you think it matters what your algorithm's used for? You don't sort numbers for the heck of it.

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Seth Bernstein @sethbern.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s very disappointing to see major universities using AI art for promotional material when there are students who could create incredible work and deserve that recognition

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Temple HCI Lab @templehci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Last night felt like a movie 🍿 We had our first lab meeting with some of the new students joining for Spring 2025. What a feeling to see so many first-year undergraduate students so excited to start their research journeys.