https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988
I don't think I've seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say "surely it can't be that bad" even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they'd know more than I would I guess. Yikes!
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