Artificial intelligence thrives because universities reward predictable academic writing over genuine intellectual discovery. As higher education expanded, publication increasingly became less a record of discovery than a currency of professional advancement. Papers certify careers, grants, promotions, and institutional prestige. The result is an explosion of research output without a corresponding explosion of transformative ideas. Novelty has always been rewarded, but only when it is legible within shared methods, shared language, and shared standards of evidence. On this view, AI does not dissolve the institution so much as accelerate it—making fluent, norm-compliant prose cheap while leaving untouched the deeper filters that decide what counts as knowledge.
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