Maybe universities will become much more research-centric, as AI can take on personalized instruction and coaching.
⚡️There is going to be a brutal repricing of education.
A four-year degree at enormous cost makes much less sense when knowledge itself becomes abundant.
The university system will be forced to justify what the credential buys beyond information transfer.
Elite networks, regulated credentials, laboratories, medicine, physical training, genuine apprenticeship, those survive better.
Paying $150,000 to receive lectures and prove basic cognitive competence gets harder to defend when an AI tutor is better, personalized, available constantly, and nearly free.