WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for The New Yorker as bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/will-ai-make-college-obsolete
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Just when higher education demands defense against a fascist onslaught--and when AI provides new need and opportunity for the humanities--The NYer and its author (Bowdoin '02, Columbia '05) surrender ivy to careerism without making the case for education for its own sake.
@jeffjarvis The people who agree to this are those who didn't learn anything in college and are likely privileged gits to begin with, who have been able to trade on connections and access rather than what they know.
@jeffjarvis Just the headline is so obviously stupid. If ever there was a time for "I can't even," it's this type of AI bullshit.
