{"id":29409,"date":"2026-02-17T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29409"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:10:52","slug":"do-you-think-ai-will-remove-the-need-for-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/02\/17\/do-you-think-ai-will-remove-the-need-for-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think AI will remove the need for higher ed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AW021726-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AW021726-2.jpg\" alt=\"Do you think AI will remove the need for higher ed?\" class=\"wp-image-29404\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Do you think AI will remove the need for higher ed?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to me that current AI models and higher ed have different goals. No, I don&#8217;t think AI can replace the need for humans to work together to try and understand the world and each other better. A quick, surface level answer solves lots of problems, but even AI itself is based on humans working together to understand things more deeply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that current AI models and higher ed have different goals. No, I don&#8217;t think AI can replace the need for humans to work together to try and understand the world and each other better. A quick, surface level answer solves lots of problems, but even AI itself is based on humans &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/02\/17\/do-you-think-ai-will-remove-the-need-for-higher-ed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do you think AI will remove the need for higher ed?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29414,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29409\/revisions\/29414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}