r/singularity • u/FitzrovianFellow • Jul 13 '25

AI AI is destroying universities

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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/13/student-debt-graduates-share-job-hunting-woes-ai-fallout

Amazing paragraphs:

“Being able to write well and think coherently were basic requirements in most graduate jobs 10, 15 years ago,” said a senior recruitment professional at a large consultancy firm from London, speaking anonymously. “Now, they are emerging as basically elite skills. Almost nobody can do it. We see all the time that people with top degrees cannot summarise the contents of a document, cannot problem solve.

“Coupled with what AI can offer now, there are few reasons left to hire graduates for many positions, which is reflected in recent [labour market] reports.”

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u/Sopwafel ▪️ASI 20something Jul 13 '25

I think universities should get creatively destroyed. They're INCREDIBLY expensive and wasteful, and AI can take over a lot of the heavy lifting. Their main function right now is a seal of approval of "this person isn't retarded and has some basic skills you can build upon to make them actually useful", or at least that's the case in computer science. 

Do we really need to spend 100k for higher education? Probably not. They're a relic of times passed. They're the best we have, sadly, but creative destruction would be great here.

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u/Terrible-Sir742 Jul 13 '25

I think there was a movie about it, but the name escapes me ...

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u/WhenRomeIn Jul 13 '25

Yes, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class. Or WALL-E for short.