the university and its daemons

And AI will increasingly become good enough to facilitate university level discourse, coaching, and grooming. This was always going to happen. Just a question of when. The university as a machine proceeds, with its goals, though methods may change. Maybe goals will change as industry changes also. 

Top universities are fundamentally about political laning, not knowledge, anyway, though the two are related. Only one of the two pays, so the payers have it.