Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part III

Academics Need to Wake Up on AI, Part IIIMost of us do not contribute to human knowledge—AI just made it obviousAlexander KustovApr 15, 20261373634SharePlease like, share, comment, and subscribe. It helps grow the newsletter without a financial contribution on your part. Thank you for reading.In Part I, I argued that AI can already do social science research better than most professors. In Part II, I engaged with over a thousand responses, conceding where critics were right, while standing by my main claim: the academic status quo was already broken, and AI is just forcing the reckoning.1 In this Part III, written collaboratively with AI and my peers over the last month, I move from diagnosis to what academics can and can't actually do about it.The rather unlikely proximate cause of this…

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