AI Has Already Killed Academia as We Know It

AI has already killed academia as we know it?

A tenured professor and editor-in-chief argues academia's reward system is broken under AI. Students use two paid models to polish assignments into undetectable, high-scoring work, penalizing honest writers. In research, someone with Consensus and Claude can produce a publishable paper a day, overwhelming peer review. Grant applications face the same volume attack: a five-person team can submit ten proposals per cycle by rotating lead applicants, with AI fixing budget errors and missed citations. The author says institutions are moving too slowly—teaching assessments are being redesigned, but research metrics still treat AI-inflated output as real.

Why it matters: First-person account from a tenured professor showing how academic reward systems have collapsed under AI, with specific cheating chains and research production details — not vague hand-wringing. Docked slightly for being a personal blog rather than institutional release, and ...