What Is the University For? – Remaining Human in the Transition to LLMs (opens in new tab)

Indeed, the singularity has come for the University, and now the University's death rattles are heard in the form of academics writing opinion pieces desperately trying to grasp at anything that might save their privileged position, searching for an imaginary escape hatch that relieves them from the compulsion of joining the rabble in contemplating their professional obsolescence.

“The singularity has come for universities, and we must adapt as a result. If you think the main point of university humanities classes was to teach expository essay writing, the season ahead will be a catastrophe.”

Meghan Sullivan of Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good on AI and the purpose of education.