I've written articles like this - the ones where I take a pile of notes (like, say, these OLDaily posts) from the last year or so, organize them into themes, and then build a narrative around them. I pinnacled in the form around 12 years ago in London at Greenwich and the LSE. This article is like that, documenting the many many ways AI is going to kill the university or (in the words of Tyler Cowen) "will persist as a dating service, a way of leaving the house, and a chance to party and go see some football games." The sheer volume of notes is evidence of a community roiling. But this is a community based on rigid hierarchy and protocol, that exploits a large percentage of its work force, that denies access to the majority of society, and fails a third of those who enter. I'm not going to say that AI is the answer to all things, but it's directly impacting things that have needed attention as long as I have been active in the sector.
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