AI is Destroying Universities and Learning itself.

“Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience.”

(via Michael Rera).

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

This hit hard:

“we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth." [Peter Hershock]

@josephwilk
Traditional tools only have one operator, this is almost never true for tech