Universities must beware of reliance on big AI (opinion)
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Building reliance on Silicon Valley AI companies carries risks, Collin Bjork writes.
BlackJack3D/E+/Getty Images Across the Anglophone world, universities are stressed to the brink. In the United States, nearly 100 universities closed in the past two years, and Project 2025 proposes closing the Department of Education . In England, at least 67 universities are restructuring programs and cutting jobs. In Australia, a recent federal report concluded that its universities have “ neither the capacity nor capability to deliver what the nation needs .” And in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government has established two working groups to assess the health of the entire university and sci
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