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  "channel_handle": "r/singularity",
  "title": "Universities going forward?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vzwgmp/universities_going_forward/",
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  "upload_date": "20260827",
  "published_at": "2026-08-27T15:02:20+00:00",
  "transcript": "I am a mathematics university professor. I keep calm and realistic and I am no AI denier; in fact I predicted since 2017 or so that the current AI capabilities were possible both practically and philosophically, in the sense that I knew that humans could create an intelligent-seeming machine without necessarily understanding every piece of how the intelligence arises.\n\nI believe AI will revolutionize all intellectual fields eventually; it is sort of already happening in mathematics. What I want to ponder is: what happens to universities going forward?\n\nOptimistically, I believe education will always be important, that human teaching cannot be replaced by a machine, and also, that independent certification of certain human skills and abilities should become even more important than before, since now anybody with access to AI can 'fake' having several intellectual skills (and this is becoming more and more true with each passing day). \n\nOn the other hand, maybe it won't matter anymore that humans have the skills we used to teach them, when AI can just literally replace them. Still, I remain skeptical of this because the most productive and effective use of AI can only be achieved by a human with the skillset needed to even understand the AI output and properly contextualize it.\n\n  \nWhat do you think?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[94 upvotes] I think education for the sake of education will remain, but the modern system of going to degree mills just to fill a resume won't last long\n\n[64 upvotes] I think that we'll actually rediscover the real value in Liberal Arts and Humanities programs moving forward. For a long time now we've seen education as a means to an end. But we need to start figuring out how to make whole people, which is what Universities used to be about. We need people to start thinking deeply and broadly about what it means to be human etc, and to give people razor sharp critical thinking skills and the ability to orient themselves in a topsy turvy world. Imho.\n\nEdit: It's also starting to look like the people with comprehensive thinking skills and abilities are the ones that will be  best equipped to master AI. It's pretty clear at this point that figuring out what you want to accomplish is pretty important when a universe of possibilities and potentials is a (well crafted) prompt away.\n\n[25 upvotes] Human teaching can definitely be replaced by a machine. I think that's what were seeing.\n\n[24 upvotes] Why do you believe that human teaching will be still preferable to an AI?\n\nI would never prefer a human teaching me anymore even now let alone when AI becomes more intelligent (i.e. in any future moment essentially). \n\nI myself also taught maths at university for two years. I can't with a hand on my heart not advise a student to seek an AI to explain whatever they need explaining. I don't believe I am superior in this. I loved teaching and up until this January planned to return to it. But again, I can't, because my best honest advise to any student would be go ask an llm. ",
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    "author": "RealisticMillenial",
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