Back in the day if you were studying in Cambridge under somebody like Russell, it would have been a class of 5, and all of you were poised to become professors. Now, well, now it's a different story. Say what you will about higher education, but it's not for everyone. Most people currently attending university have no business being there, frankly, but what else are they supposed to do?! The game is rigged so. I wish we had something better, but we don't.

Maybe all this social stuff that AI would bring to focus—may prove a catalyser for radical change?

Unlikely, but one can dream!