Student–AI interactions in authentic coursework concentrate in a small number of recurring patterns rather than idiosyncratic use¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Across courses, student–AI interaction mass is concentrated in a small number of recurring patterns, shared across many students and conversations. → Taelin Karidi 2026

Evidence¶

Taelin Karidi 2026¶

Taelin Karidi, Ofra Amir, and Ido Roll. (2026). AI in the Wild: A Large Scale Analysis of Authentic Interactions of College Students with Generative AI. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29442 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.29442

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Large-scale observational analysis of voluntarily submitted chat logs from 821 students across six courses, aggregated over 15,887 turns. The authors report that "interaction mass is concentrated in a small number of recurring patterns" (Figure 1).

"Across the dataset, interaction mass is concentrated in a small number of recurring patterns (Figure 1)."

Discussion¶

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