Universities going forward?

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A mathematics professor ponders AI's future impact on universities, weighing human teaching against AI replacement and emphasizing the need for human skills to contextualize AI output.

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. I 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? Optimistically, 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). On 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. What do you think?
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