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Teaching with AI Redux
I was speaking at a conference this week in Kansas City and got a question about where higher ed faculty might start to get up to speed on AI.
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Nobody here but us chickens
How "trained incapacity" explains why leaders of NGOs are celebrating Trump's executive order on AI
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Boring revolutions and large-elbowed models
Logpodge #7 where I explain why last year's AI may be all you need and ask who benefits when OpenAI and Anthropic pay universities to be their…
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On Beyond AGI!
We need new language for talking about large AI models. Alison Gopnik, Henry Farrell, James Evans, Cosma Shalizi, and Dan Davies provide one.
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Can the Trump-Musk regime claw back funds already dispersed to universities?
An underappreciated risk to institutions of higher education is that the regime will do to a university what it did to New York City: claw back funds…
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OpenAI's NextGenAI press release is horse of a different color
Like the press release last month announcing its partnership with California State University, I see NextGenAI as an act of desperation by OpenAI, a…
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It's Bad
Here is my advice for higher education executives facing the unprecedented challenges of the coming years: invest in your people first and the…
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Home fires burning
Institutions that pay millions for an enterprise license for ChatGPT or for consultants to tell them how to reduce costs are wasting much-needed funds…
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The CSU system and OpenAI have an alignment problem
The news out of CSU feels important because it sets a precedent for treating OpenAI as if it were an educational technology company when really it is…
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What exactly is an AI-Empowered University System?
And why would you empower your university with OpenAI?
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I miss Silicon Valley
The remake has only one good joke where Sam gets mad about someone stealing his IP to make a new AI model.
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My non-prediction for 2025
How I plan to make a living writing about AI and education
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