[AI Summary]: Professor Florian Schneider explores the implications of generative AI for academic labor and knowledge production. The article examines how AI tools are automating traditional academic tasks like literature reviews, data analysis, and writing, while raising fundamental questions about the value and future of scholarly work. Schneider argues that rather than trying to ban AI, academia should reconsider its industrial-scale systems and conservative institutional practices that make them vulnerable to automation. He envisions a future where academic knowledge might be shared in new formats beyond traditional written texts, with AI handling formulaic tasks while humans focus on genuine thinking, creativity, and meaningful interactions.
- Author: Florian Schneider
- Year: 2025
- Published: September 9, 2025