"The greatest threat to higher education is not AI. It is institutional inertia supported by reflexive criticism that mistakes resistance for virtue. AI did not create this problem, but it is exposing dysfunctionalities and contradictions that have accumulated over decades." So says Ian Richardson in this article responding to critics of his earlier article (archive) where he makes the same claim. "If universities, especially those in the second and third tiers, fail to respond to the strategic challenge it poses, they risk being displaced." Currently open access on THE, but archive just in case. I think that recent experience tells us that rather than being displaced, universities risk being acquired and/or repurposed to serve various corporate or political ends.
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