Optimistically, the idea could be to push prerequisites to an always-on, ever-available resource. Depending on the major, skills could include organizing papers into outlines, using Excel, or building a computer.

Professors can tailor lectures to narrower topics or advanced, current, or more specialized subjects. There may be less need to have a series of beginning or introductory courses--it's assumed learners will avail themselves.

Pessimistically, AI literacy contributes to further erosion of critical thinking, lazy auto-grading, and inability to construct book-length arguments.