Ask a student whether they've used AI to help them with their studies.
问一个学生他们是否在学业中使用过AI。
Many will say 'yes' — and others might not admit it!
很多人会回答“是”——而另一些人可能不会承认！
A 2025 survey even found that nine out of 10 university students in the UK had used AI in some way during their studies.
一项2025年的调查甚至发现，英国有十分之九的大学生在学习中以某种方式使用过AI。
AI can be really useful for summarizing papers, finding information and improving understanding.
AI在总结论文、查找信息和加深理解上非常有帮助。
However, a new study has found that when students begin to rely heavily on AI, they may also start to lose confidence in their own abilities.
然而，一项新研究发现，当学生开始严重依赖AI时，他们也可能开始对自己能力失去信心。
Researchers in China asked more than 1,600 university students to take an online survey that asked them about their feelings of academic stress, anxiety and burnout, as well as about their use of AI.
中国的研究人员邀请了1600多名大学生参加一项在线调查，询问他们关于学业压力、焦虑和倦怠的感受，以及他们对AI的使用情况。
The study found that students experiencing greater academic stress were more likely to depend on AI tools.
研究发现，学业压力更大的学生更可能依赖AI工具。
The researchers said that relying on AI may 'reduce students' mastery experiences and encourage reliance on external support.'
研究人员表示，依赖AI可能会“减少学生的掌握经验，并鼓励依赖外部支持。”
"Mastery experiences" are personal successes that build a person's belief in their ability to achieve something, or 'master' it.
“掌握经验”是指个人成功，这些成功建立了一个人对达成某事的（或者“掌握”一项能力的）信念。
In other words, once you've achieved something yourself, you believe you can achieve more, or achieve something again.
换句话说，一旦你自己达成了某事，你就相信你能达成更多，或再次达成某事。
But when students rely too much on AI, they may have fewer opportunities to solve problems themselves, meaning they miss out on some of those important mastery experiences.
但是当学生过度依赖AI时，他们自己解决问题的机会就会减少，这意味着他们会错过一些重要的掌握经验。
The researchers suggested that this may cause academic anxiety and burnout.
研究人员认为这可能导致学业焦虑和倦怠。
Students may begin using AI because they think it will help with the pressures of studying.
学生开始使用AI可能是因为他们认为AI有助于缓解学习压力。
But the researchers suggested that relying on AI too much may actually increase feelings of anxiety and burnout.
但研究人员表示，过度依赖AI实际上可能会增加焦虑和倦怠的感觉。
However, the study could not show whether relying on AI caused these problems, or whether students who already lacked confidence were more likely to rely on AI.
然而，该研究无法表明是依赖AI导致了这些问题，还是已经缺乏信心的学生更可能依赖AI。
Experts say AI can be a very useful tool, but it works best as 'scaffolding' for learning — supporting students as they learn, but not doing the work for them.
专家表示，AI可以是一个非常实用的工具，但它的最佳作用是作为学习的“脚手架”——在学习过程中为学生提供支持，而不是代替他们完成工作。
