Mastodawn

> ... the mad dash among many universities and colleges to announce AI procurements and partnerships. While there are signs the AI fever is breaking elsewhere, largely due to declining corporate adoption and cash burn rates that would strain even the most ketamine-diluted circulatory system, and despite evangelists as zealous as Sam Altman talking about a bubble, university administrators across the country are all in on AI.

https://defector.com/higher-eds-rush-to-adopt-ai-is-about-so-much-more-than-ai

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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into the early fall semester. I don’t mean the fear that AI-based cheating is going to destroy education as we know…

bsmall2 1d ago

> “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

#JonathanRees quotes #JustinRaden in #TheDefector on
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