Well before AI had entered the lexicon of evening newscasters, the university model of higher-education was in trouble. Between 2010 and 2022 — the year ChatGPT came out — university enrollment dropped nearly 15 percent throughout the US. State funding cuts pushed already exorbitant tuition costs onto even more students, forcing many to ask whether a college education was even worth the staggering investment.
And when AI chatbots did hit the scene, they turned a lousy situation into a full blown nightmare, with fresh college graduates discovering in real time that their degrees are almost useless in one of the worst job markets in recent history.
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El problema existencial de la Universidad no se debe a la proliferación de la IA. Se debe a lo que dejó de ser y en lo que se ha convertido en las últimas décadas: dejar de cultivar mentes. La IA lo que hace es acelerar el derrumbamiento de las catedrales del conocimiento por su propia inercia administrativa, educativa y socio-cultural.