AI and the existential crisis of higher education: A self-examination
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https://doi.org/10.66818/aiaie.v1i1.893Keywords:
AI, Philosophy, Questions, Higher education, IgnoranceAbstract
AI has caused an existential crisis in higher education. With knowledge and personalized learning available at the click of a button, questions about the meaning and purpose of education threaten to dissolve the need for the teaching profession as we know it. Yet research on AI in higher education focuses more on how to understand and adapt to AI than on how to revive and revise the raison d’être of education. By focusing on, 1) how to use AI to improve teaching (e.g. Shi & Choi, 2024), 2) how to use AI to improve learning (e.g. Sasikala & Ravichandran, 2024), and 3) how to teach AI literacy (e.g. Daher, 2025), researchers have turned the question of AI’s impact on higher education into a technical-practical problem rather than an existential one.
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