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Basically the AI developers would run everything and I am not sure companies would let go of that control.
I can see this happening. But, unfortunately these jobs still want you to have a degree.
AI can’t teach critical thinking. Or media literacy. Or art.
(tl:dr at the end) Absolutely not. The majority all the information that humanity knows has already been digitized, but Google, YouTube, etc haven't caused the downfall of education. Have they changed education? Of course.
But the thing about the (higher) education system is that so much of this information is paywalled. Think of all the influencers that make content about the basics but end their videos with "check the link in my bio for my course/pateron/other paywall if you want to learn more." You can probably find any scholarly article ever published in a Google search, but if you don't have a subscription or university affiliation, you're probably not getting access to a bunch of them.
Not to mention, universities have to go through an accreditation process to even offer a program of study. There's no accreditation process to prove you know how to apply information you get from ChatGPT or Google or an encyclopedia from the public library. Maybe they'll create something, but it will be a course or a standardized test you'll have to pay for.
Even if ChatGPT or any AI program becomes a functional and accurate search database, it will become paywalled. There is no way OpenAI, or any other company, would keep such a valuable resource (which, I cannot stress enough, does not exist yet based on the track record of inaccurate information ChatGPT provides) available to the public.
All current events considered, the only way I can see American higher education becoming (mostly) obsolete is through a mix of universities becoming to costly to prospective students that they cannot recruit well enough to self-maintain, and the potential of universities suffering from censorship laws (see: Florida trying to expand their censorship laws past public K-12 schools onto universities). And even then, we'll just move backwards and higher degress will ince again become only available to the wealthy and a select few who get enough sympathy from the wealthy to get scholarships.
tl;dr - Information and certification processes will change as technology changes, but they will always be paywalled to the point they will never be accessible to everyone.
I have a degree that is very unrelated to my field of work. It’s always bothered me but that’s besides the point. When I brought this up to my mentor she said something powerful. She said all colleges do is teach you how to learn and all a degree says is that you are able to learn. That being said yes there are plenty of degrees(surgeon/doctor/pharmacist) that if you didn’t have a degree in medicine and a ton of practice you would not be allowed anywhere near me with a knife. But for the majority of degrees it’s just memorizing and parroting back what you hear in class. College teaches you how to think AI can’t reproduce that. At least not yet.
I think there is definitely a risk of AI taking over a lot of jobs but many of these jobs require a human element that AI can’t replace.
AI is like a super-powered search engine, but it still needs human input to function. Education at its core is about more than just acquiring information. It's about shaping well-rounded individuals who can contribute positively to society. And that my friend requires a human touch.