Tertiary education has been nosediving for at least a century. By the looks of things, AI will be the ground into which that century-long tailspin in quality and everything else will finally crash and explode into a fiery ball, leaving nothing but a smudge of charred earth behind. 

My personal experience in attempting to teach anything in this Age of AI tells me that most students have sunk far below "not even trying" and are now descending into the murky depths of "not even trying to try." 

And what are our hallowed Citadels of Darkness doing to counter this egregious yet strangely self-entitled lack of effort and thinking in university education?

Well, they are forcing professors and instructors to attend workshops and conferences on how educators must harness the power and potential of AI in the lecture hall and classroom -- thereby validating and implementing "not even trying to try" as the new standard of academic excellence. 

As with most things in the past hundred years or so, this is sure to end well (assuming it has not already ended).  

Note added: For the sake of clarity, I should add that most profs and instructors do not oppose harnessing the power and potential of AI in the lecture hall or classroom.