> “Born out of these now-distant federal research projects, then,” Raden writes, “AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruc­tion, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy.” If this somehow happens, AI will be so much more than just a nuisance. It will become an existential threat to the value of higher education as a whole.

https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/ai-nuisance

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