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The rise of AI forces a rethink of what universities do, and maybe what they are</h1> <div class="wrap-content"> <p class="margin-bottom-xl margin-top-none">9 September 2024</p> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="500" height="620" src="https://universitas21.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/simon-chesterman_500-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-7594" style="width:379px;height:auto" srcset="https://universitas21-com.translate.goog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/simon-chesterman_500-1.jpg?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto 500w,https://universitas21-com.translate.goog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/simon-chesterman_500-1-450x558.jpg?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto 450w,https://universitas21-com.translate.goog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/simon-chesterman_500-1-161x200.jpg?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto 161w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px"> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption"> Professor Simon Chesterton, National University of Singapore </figcaption> </figure> <p class="is-style-intro">In October 2024 U21 will bring together leaders in International Education to discuss the role of world-leading universities in ‘Preparing Students for a Global Future’. Ahead of the event, Professor Simon Chesterman (National University of Singapore), the event’s keynote speaker, shares a preview of his view that AI forces us to rethink everything about universities, including delivering global competencies, opportunities and learning across the campus. </p> <p>When ChatGPT was released into the wild, less than two years ago, suggesting that the promise of human-level artificial intelligence might soon be within reach, Academic Twitter was abuzz with discussion about how this transformative technology that approximated human reasoning and communication might… be used by our students to cheat in their papers. </p> <p>There was handwringing and head scratching; many cycled through the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression — before finally starting to find acceptance. </p> <p>Two years on, it’s clear that there is a lot of hype about AI, with some suggesting the bubble might soon burst. Yet it seems equally clear that our relationship to information is transformed forever. I’m looking forward to discussing with colleagues from around the world the extent to which that transformation will alter not merely what universities do, but what they are. </p> <p>Understandably, most of the focus has been on short-term questions like updating plagiarism policies, coming up with guidelines for faculty on the use (or not) of generative AI in classrooms, and so on.  </p> <p>I’d like to take a slightly longer horizon — ten or twenty years, say — and consider how the shifting forces at work might alter the role of universities, both for our students and for society. </p> <p>It requires some soul searching about what we do and why. </p> <p>So, what is the purpose of a university? Is it to provide opportunities for young adults to explore and find themselves? Or is it to offer a pipeline of workers, especially knowledge workers, to service the economy?  </p> <p>Put bluntly, are students our customers? Or are they our <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3253519" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">products</a>? </p> <p>Most universities embody aspects of both, but more vocational institutions lean more towards the latter; more “elite” institutions toward the former. All, however, are judged on the employability of their graduates.  </p> <p>The impact of AI will exacerbate the contradictions in what universities do, between our vocational and aspirational functions, by commoditising one of our key outputs: knowledge workers. </p> <p>This was the term introduced in 1959 by management consultant Peter Drucker for non-routine problem solvers. People who “<a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://archive.org/details/thinkingforlivin00dave" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">think for a living</a>” earn through their ability to analyse and write — something that ChatGPT can replicate in almost no time and at almost no cost. </p> <p>Much of undergraduate education, as it presently exists, prepares students for jobs in which they move words or numbers around on a screen. If those jobs no longer exist, what will students — and employers — want from a university education? </p> <p>If disinterested learning fell into decline with the rise of the university as “factory”, might it return when the throughline between graduation and employability becomes less certain? </p> <p>Against that, to the extent that state funding depends on the factory model, would a return to the idea of the university as a place at which one “improves oneself” mean a reduction in financial support? </p> <p>And, from the perspective of our students, in a future awash with AI, might the three- or four-year bachelor’s degree start to look less attractive than certificate programs offered by the technology companies employing large swathes of our “graduates” — assuming anyone is getting employed at all? </p> <h6 class="wp-block-heading has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d6b4ca7ec7660fde457074387422aae5">Professor Chesterman will deliver the opening keynote of the U21 Global Education Meeting, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, on Wednesday 23 October.</h6> </div> </div> </main> <div class="wrap"><a href="https://universitas21-com.translate.goog/news/rage-against-the-machine-the-rise-of-ai-forces-a-rethink-of-what-universities-do-and-maybe-what-they-are/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto#" class="link-to-top"><i class="icon icon-arrow-up"></i> Top</a> </div> <div id="sub-footer"> <div class="wrap"> <div class="footer-newsletter-wrap"> <div class="h3 margin-bottom-lg"> Sign up for our E-newsletter </div> <div class="footer-newsletter" id="newsletter-signup-form"> <div class="grid grid-3-cols"> <div class="col-1/3 col-2/3"> <p>'U21:Connect' is published 6 times a year, offering members a round up of U21 event, opportunities, competitions and highlights from member news.</p> </div> <div class="col-3/3"><a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1dIyxh9_nT2ysCEnqcOz3QQ2b4v1u" class="button button--orange">Sign up now</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer-site"> <div class="wrap"> <div class="grid grid-spaced"> <div class="col-2/3"> <div class="blurb"> <div class="h2 caps margin-bottom-md"> <strong>Universitas 21</strong> </div> <div class="h3 margin-bottom-md"> Bringing Leading Global Universities Together </div> <div class="h4 margin-bottom-xl"> Shared excellence. 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