From Generative AI for Academics ch 8:
Yet from a sociological perspective I see a genuine risk of academics being automated out of our jobs. Not immediately, nor everywhere. But a gradual process in which human scholarship becomes a retreating role, increasingly confined to elite institutions which charge a premium for human research and teaching. Human expertise becomes a premium commodity rationed within ever more automated institutions, to the extent it remains in place at all. The once familiar enjoyments of thinking together might come to be an exceptional occurrence, amidst a working life spent caught up in a deadening system. The cynic might say we are there already. But I think it could get much worse, if we do not approach GAI carefully.
Mark Carrigan 