> AI is coming for higher education

As long as hiring managers continue to give more weight to resumes with name brand colleges, these universities will never be threatened.

Some places like Google and many state governments are publicly removing all requirements for college degrees. Whether they still choose degree holders anyways is an open question, but some are very openly proclaiming that it's not a requirement.

the internet already made college irrelevant. The second wave of AI is just cleaning it up.

While I was attending college in the 2010s. They were always pushing “new buildings”, “new rock wall climbing”, “renovations to college housing”, “lazy river!”. Apparently funded through higher tuition and fees.

At some point, a college degree will no longer be required which will be the death knell.

The point of college is signaling. The internet has no answer for how to signal to employers.

How about employers pay to train their own employees?

Are they allowed to change employers after being trained, and do they have to pay them back if so? In that case, what's changed?

Then they leave

I think it won't be AI that causes the collapse of university attendance. It will be people deciding not to go to college.

Most people just want jobs. Many employers are finding out that people with or without college educations can perform at their tasks, think critically and do all the same functions at most jobs. Ergo, folks will choose not to go into student debt purgatory and just dive straight into the workplace.