AI destroys the university and learns itself

I used to think that the hype surrounding artificial intelligence was just that – hype. I was skeptical when ChatGPT debuted. The media hype, the breathless announcements of a new era – it all seemed familiar. I assumed it would pass like every tech fad before it.
I was wrong. But not in the way you might think.

The panic came first. Anxiety erupted at faculty meetings: “How are we going to detect plagiarism now?” “Is this the end of the college essay?” “Should we go back to blue books and proctored exams?” My business school colleagues suddenly behaved as if cheating had just been invented.

Then, almost overnight, the hand-wringing turned into hand-rubbing. The same professors who predicted academic doom were now flippantly renaming themselves “AI-enabled educators.” Workshops such as “Building AI skills and knowledge in the classroom” And “Basics of AI competence” popped up like mushrooms after the rain. The initial panic about…