Go back to the old approach where degrees/credentials are conferred based on discussion/debate with the professors and an on-paper exam at end of year, with no

Go back to the old approach where degrees/credentials are conferred based on discussion/debate with the professors and an on-paper exam at end of year, with no attendance or classes required. Then just have the professors provide a syllabus and potential students work through it themselves, asking an AI to explain anything that's unclear. Professors can get their funding from the government and industry; in future it won't make sense for students to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to get at most an hour of daily one-on-one time with professors, when for a fraction of that cost they could be getting 24/7 tutoring/discussion from an LLM that's at least as knowledgeable. Someone will ask, what about people who are incapable of motivating themselves to study? Well they'd feel a lot more motivation to study if it meant saving tens of thousands of dollars. As for people completely incapable of independent learning, they'd likely have little employability in the future in any case, because people would rather hire an AI than that kind of person.