archived 31 Oct 2024 17:15:52 UTC
AI May Ruin the University as We Know It
The existential threat of the newest wave of ed-tech.
Alex Veremeyenko on Twitter / X
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.Study groups are disappearing.… pic.twitter.com/kSxKk4h06o— Alex Veremeyenko (@alex_verem) September 12, 2026
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X
🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used… pic.twitter.com/Rq6zUi5mRp— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) May 6, 2026
This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.
An inference cooperative for academic AI – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
Universities, like other institutions, are currently being confronted with a dilemma: embrace the AI tools currently available from big-name tech companies, and be part of the future, or reject the miraculous machines and stick your head in the sand. This dilemma is a false one, on several counts. It is far from clear what role generative AI will have in the future of academic life, for one thing. And beyond rewording the choices, surely there are other options that this dilemma fails to consider.
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test
No. 019: AlphaFold team disbanded, verification as the bottleneck, Tao's ICM caution - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 019 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
AI Age Checks Are Here—And They’re Not Fair To Everyone
archived 2 Feb 2026 17:48:49 UTC
University Turned Professors' Lectures Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
