Mark CarriganThe two tier future of LLM-infused higher education
I find this analysis extremely plausible about organisational crisis leading to a far greater embrace of LLMs in universities which are already struggling:
In a two-tier system of ‘massified’ AI-infused and AI-maintained higher education, the value premium of education and training would be comparably inferior and so too positionality in performance league tables that are fundamental to student recruitment and therefore fee income.
The overall effect of technological saviourism might, therefore, be of hardening the status hierarchy bifurcating elite and non-elite higher education; significantly devaluing the latter. In turn, accessibility to high order private returns from higher education participation – if measured only in terms of employability – would suffer negative impact as would the supply of graduate talent replete with global skills.
