Julia McCoy highlights how students are handing credentials to autonomous AI agents to complete entire courses—from watching lectures to submitting quizzes, writing papers, and replying to discussion threads [00:08]. She argues that if a machine can finish an entire course load, higher education has largely been measuring mechanical "output" [00:21], which machines now produce effortlessly. Because AI can draft text but cannot exercise true critical judgment [00:28]—something rarely formalized on a syllabus—she contends that the real challenge facing universities isn't whether institutions can stop AI tools, but reconsidering what students are actually there to learn [00:35]. [summary provided in part by Gemini Flash]
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