AI for academic using was never an issue before people realize that students can use AI to write great essays. I still remember the last semester of my high school when my friend wrote an entire essay with AI without being revised by himself, and got an A for his final grade.

In short, the concept of too much means when you are not ready to handle the knowledge yet, or too lazy to write the entire or both, which is the most common use of AI for students now. Once AI starts replacing our cognitive work that builds expertise, it is too much. Dinsmore & Fryer argue that human learning depends on three forces, which are Knowledge, Strategies and Interest.AI might harm our process and willingness of learning if we are skipping any of these three processes. Because it is a linear progress, acclimation to competence to expertise. If we use AI inappropriately, AI will become a shortcut that destroy the entire mental process of integrating your knowledge.

Source: Dinsmore, Dan L., and Luke K. Fryer. “What Does Current GenAI Actually Mean for Student Learning?” Learning and Individual Differences, vol. 125, Jan. 2026, p. 102834, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102834.