AI Didn't Break Higher Education. It Just Exposed the Expensive Scam We Were Already Paying For.
By the time artificial intelligence arrived on campus, higher education had already confused learning with credentials, students with customers, and academic achievement with a very expensive piece of paper. There's something almost adorable about watching university administrators suddenly discover that artificial intelligence might destroy the integrity of higher education. These are the same institutions that spent decades raising tuition, expanding administrative bureaucracies, treating students like revenue streams, and convincing eighteen-year-olds that borrowing the equivalent of a modest mortgage was a perfectly reasonable way to discover their passion for medieval literature. Now, apparently, the educational apocalypse has arrived because a student can ask ChatGPT to write a five-page essay about Shakespeare in twelve seconds. Forgive me if I don't immediately reach for a box of tissues. Higher education was already standing in the middle of a burning building, discuss...
