Universities Must Resist the AI Onslaught
2025-06-23
A seminar at Goldsmiths Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought explored AI's impact on higher education. The speaker argued that AI isn't futuristic sci-fi, but a product of neoliberal education systems. AI's operation relies on massive data and computing power, its inner workings opaque and unpredictable. The speaker called for universities to resist AI's overreach, impacting not just academic integrity but critical thinking and social equity. He advocated using Ivan Illich's concept of 'convivial tools' to critically examine AI and establish workers'/people's councils to ensure technological social determination, preventing AI from becoming a tool of control and oppression.
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