Lots to appreciate about this piece. Among them, a careful answer to the question of what in God’s name university administrators are thinking in the headlong, apparently suicidal rush to embrace AI. +
Miriam Posner
I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.
The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.
