Welcome to Campus. Here's Your ChatGPT.

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Source: NYT

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life.

If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test.

OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

“Our vision is that, over time, A.I. would become part of the core infrastructure of higher education,” Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education, said in an interview. In the same way that colleges give students school email accounts, she said, soon “every student who comes to campus would have access to their personalized A.I. account.”

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/chatgpt-openai-colleges.html

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This is horrifying.

This is also NOT really about education.

There's a much more accurate description later in the article, when it says this is "part of an escalating A.I. arms race among tech giants to win over universities and students with their chatbots" to try to turn students into future customers.

The article points out this is "a national experiment on millions of students" when there's already evidence it harms critical thinking.

This is extremely cynical, predatory marketing by OpenAI, with students pawns in the tech bros' AI arms race.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman did incalculable damage to education worldwide when he released ChatGPT 2-1/2 years ago. Now OpenAI's "VP of education" envisions students taking the chatbot they'll be forced to use in college into their careers, using it for life.