Rahul Verma on the student protests: Governments find such protests much harder to confront because there is no obvious ideological counter-narrative. One can’t simply invoke nationalism or accuse every dissatisfied student of serving foreign interests when the grievance concerns administrative failure. The usual…
Read the note →Thoughtful essay on the role of colleges in the age of AI:
The Question We Can No Longer Dodge
If AI can already produce an A– college essay in 30 seconds — on demand, at scale — then what exactly is college for?
Is it certification? Content delivery? A rite of passage? Social sorting?
Because if a machine can now flawlessly mimic the outputs we’ve long treated as evidence of learning, then the value of higher education can no longer rest on product. It must rest on the formation of actual human capability — judgment, originality, ethical reasoning, collaborative intelligence, and the ability to think in public under pressure.
Unless universities can actually do that— with conviction, not nostalgia; through redesign, not rhetoric — they will lose not only the public’s confidence, but something even more fatal: the employers’ trust that a degree still signals real human competence.
Hollis Robbins is one of the most thoughtful commentators on how artificial intelligence is reshaping education. Her latest piece is, once again, bang on the money. She has consistently pointed out the futility or rather, the growing obsolescence of modern university education ie., That is the information delivery and…
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