They can make every student workforce-ready.
Again. Show me! Where do you see students who don't have these skills on their own being successful in partnership with GenAI?
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AI already delivers 90% of the standard requirements across state systems: demonstrating written communication, quantitative reasoning, critical analysis, and information literacy.
This claim seems to be the foundation of the entire piece, and I am NOT convinced. Show me a real situation where AI is delivering 90% of these requirements.
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- Feb 2026
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Unknown unknowns
As I got further and further into this, I realized this was probably intended for a research-focused university, which was part of the reason it wasn't resonating with me.
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Known unknowns are recognized knowledge gaps: causes of a terrible disease, the best design for a stable fusion reactor, the mechanisms linking poverty to educational outcomes.
It is noteworthy that the examples are science or social science. I wonder how they conceive of this in other areas.
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These tools can support search, translation, summarization, and cross-literature pattern finding, which lowers the friction of discovery.
I think I agree here. I think the idea is that LLMs might be able to move things out of "Unknown Known" and into "Known Known."
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LLMs could do knowledge transfer more economically
This is stated as a fact and uses "knowledge transfer" language. I'm not sure I've seen evidence that LLMs can facilitate learning more economically at scale, which is the only way that matters for higher ed.
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So hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year moving a fixed body of knowledge—whether Plato or Sally Hemings or the periodic table—into student heads
The author uses the concept of "knowledge transfer" repeatedly. That is an outdated model of education that doesn't work. At first I thought they were doing so with a knowing wink, but later uses indicate that they view a lot of education as just the moving of knowledge from one brain to another. Hmph.
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