Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

Read the full story at The Conversation AI (US) ↗

Timeline · 1 report

2026-10-22 18:31 · The Conversation AI (US)
Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

More stories

Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI — OpenAI News
OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet — Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
OpenAI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems, with one lying about it — Financial Times AI
Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet — New York Times Technology
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic) — Techmeme
Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine — AWS Machine Learning Blog
Write your own training loop — without managing GPUs — with Amazon SageMaker training session APIs — AWS Machine Learning Blog
Canva releases its first image generation model — TechCrunch AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →