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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 higher education, with students outsourcing writing and thinking to chatbots and universities struggling to respond. But the author contends the sector was already fragile before AI arrived, weakened by casualisation, mass enrolment and assessment models built on trust that no longer holds. Readers are debating whether AI is the cause of the crisis or merely exposing long-standing failures.
Why now: The essay taps ongoing anxiety among educators and students about AI-driven cheating and the future of universities.
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