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Daniel Lakeland

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PhD in Civil Engineering. Debian Linux user since ca. 1994.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

theconversation.com/friday-ess

I don't think I've seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say "surely it can't be that bad" even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they'd know more than I would I guess. Yikes!

The Conversation Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

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