The Atlantic: AI is breaking higher ed, but campus decay long predates it
round · x · 2026-09-20
In The Atlantic, Ian Bogost argues that while AI appears to be wrenching higher education apart, something bigger and more damaging has been unfolding on college campuses for a long time — structural decay that predates chatbots. AI, in his view, is accelerating an existing crisis rather than creating it.
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