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AI is devastating higher education, but the system was broken
A Friday essay argues that artificial intelligence is wreaking havoc on universities, with students outsourcing writing and thinking to chatbots, but contends higher education was already in crisis before AI arrived. The piece points to decades of underfunding, casualisation and grade inflation as pre-existing faults that generative AI is now exposing and accelerating. Readers are debating whether AI is the cause of the sector's decline or merely the final blow to a system that had already lost its way.
Why now: Debate over AI's impact on universities is intensifying as educators grapple with widespread student use of chatbots.
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