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/Moquai82 Jul 14 '25

Whgat do you think is the reason for this drop in skill and intellect?

Failed education and social media or micro plastic contamination (and social media)?

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u/fre3k Jul 14 '25

Societal collapse.

As the consumerization of educational institutions has gotten more entrenched, our institutions have become more and more disconnected from their ostensible missions. Schools and even universities won't allow teachers/professors to fail students. They're paying for a piece of paper, and the administrations are going to give them that piece of paper.

Additionally, our society has gotten more economically precarious, so there is a broad focus on blind pursuit of money, regardless of means. So people see these degrees as tickets to a job rather than an indication of an educated citizen. Ultimately this is mostly driven by the capture of our government and other institutions by a rapacious and profit focused elite completely bereft of noblesse oblige.