College Is Coming Apart - The Atlantic
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Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.
Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s newsletter on making everyday life vivid. Artificial intelligence arrived on campus as a crisis but has since become banal. Students can now do basically all their schoolwork automatically with AI—answering scientific problem sets, writing computer code, and drafting essays. Professors like me have no idea whether we are really teaching or just LARPing for students who are also pretending to occupy their role. Worse, some of us are offloading the drudgery of writing recommendation letters, grant proposals, and even scientific papers to AI.…
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