Oof, this hits hard.
"AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
Choice quotes:
"The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."
"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience. Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively."
So many more spot-on observations. It's long. Actually read it, don't have AI summarize it for you.
Yup, very much my experience too, in a leading research-oriented university in the UK.
Enthusiastic adoption by university management, but also by academic colleagues, to an extent I could not have foreseen even a year. One of the greatest moral & professional disappointments in my life as a university teacher.
Glad the article can report on some student pushback. A sign of hope. Fee-bringing students demanding actual education, that will be a voice management will listen to.
