Academia in Crisis, AI "Takeover" Fears & the Death of the Starchitect

We start with the shakeup happening across higher education — starting with The New School's mass faculty cuts and what it says about the future of architecture and design programs everywhere. We talk tenure, underenrolled humanities departments, and why architecture school recruitment is struggling.Then we shift to AI: the Hugging Face "rogue agent" incident that's got security experts calling it a potential milestone in AI autonomy, why ChatGPT and Claude gave us wildly different answers about it, and Elon Musk's prediction that AI will outcode humans within two years — plus what that means for the already-brutal entry-level coding job market.We close out with a look at BIG's new Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, why iconic "starchitect" buildings don't hit the way they used to, and a tribute to OMA co-founder Elias Zenghelis, who passed away at 89.Make sure to follow us on our socials!Instagram - mxd_signalTiktok - mxd_signalYouTube - MXDSignal