Mark Carrigan, The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal – University of Manchester, September 2026 (open access)

Language models have become ubiquitous in universities without being normalised. Mark Carrigan argues this has produced a multidimensional crisis of trust, and a dilemma in which adapting to AI and integrating AI undercut each other. He proposes strategic under-integration: building the relational capacity universities need to cope with ongoing change.