"It's Later Than You Think"
February 18, 2025
An argument that artificial general intelligence will completely revolutionize higher education. And soon.
I'll sound a cautionary note: I've seen arguments before that some technology was going to change education. It started with film strips, then movies, then in-class television, then PCs, then the Internet, then Chromebooks. There have been some changes, sure, some good--I registered for my college classes waiting in long lines for punched cards--some not so good, but I doubt any of it qualifies as a revolution. Add to that the natural inertia of large organization, particularly large not-for-profit educational organizations, and I make the odds at least 50-50 that ten years from now AGI will have changed much.
Related: "The World As You Know Is About to End". (Skip down about 40% of the page. Start at "Virtually everything in our economy is structured around facilitating 'knowledge work.' And all of that work is about to disappear.")