AI Didn't Break College. It Exposed What College Was
paulpauper
19 points
4 comments
May 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
homeonthemtn
This is disingenuous and weirdly political. When I went to college I got my ass kicked by being forced to do difficult things the hard way (to grossly over simplify my education) which in turn gave me a level of intellectual independence. There is certainly theatre to universities and I agree the models are broken for what they are used for, but for the institutions that are truly challenging students, the answers are not the point. The challenge is. AI removes that challenge and creates nothing but a dependency. That's the real issue here, not the failings of higher Ed
protocolture
AI didn't invent "Its not X, its Y" style clickbait articles, it exposed what they really are.
simianwords
This is very normal and expected. Any technological improvement just exposes old bottlenecks and moves bottlenecks to new places. Technology exposes the constraints that the old world relied on passively. A good example is the closed book exam system.