Re: AI in colleges

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/10/ai-impact-professors-students-learning

I was listening to a tech podcast and the two hosts both wrote books.
They were lamenting that books as we know them will be dead and that
instead authors should instead sell AI agent addons which supply just the
knowledge that the authors have in their heads.  It's an interesting idea,
but, even this, will deteriorate over time since the AI could incorporate
that, too.

I think we'll all just slide towards Idiocracy where nobody will want to
make any novel ideas public for fear of it getting eaten up by the AI
machines, and the AI engines will just end up training on other AIs,
eventually devolving into mediocrity.  Perhaps AI is the perfect
capitalistic vehicle for consolidation of elite power since only elites
will be able to afford to pay for private, unique, and interesting
information?