why is the new yorker paying this guy to do a new higher ed doom piece every week rather than focusing on critically examining the tech causing the problems he’s chronicling instead? yes I know, rhetorical question
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Some users criticized the analysis urging examination of AI's role in higher education decline for ignoring counterexamples like universities returning to handwritten exams or oral assessments.
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this guy is doing a dedicated series on current problems on higher ed and all the unis moving back to handwritten exams or implementing oral assessment doesn’t even factor into his analysis at all - he assumes AI cheating is the insurmountable future?
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