How embracing playful experimentation can redefine universities in an era of limitless intelligence. From the Future of Being Human Substack.
A couple of days ago the AI for U podcast posted a conversation between myself and host Brian Piper on AI and higher education. It was a wide ranging conversation, and one that touched on a number of ideas that I’ve been working on.
I’d intended to write about our conversation in my last post. But as anyone who’s read it will know, I got sidetracked by writing about AI and learning/education in terms of playpens and playgrounds.
Now that’s out of my system though (at least for the moment) I wanted to get back to the conversation I had with Brian — especially as we touched on a number of topics beyond the playpen/playground analogy that are relevant to broader thinking about how artificial intelligence likely to profoundly impact how we approach education and learning within universities.
I would strongly recommend listening to the full conversation, which is available on Enrollify as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. But I’m also acutely aware that most people who read articles like this have an aversion to clicking on podcast links.
And so I thought I’d try something different — for me at least — and use ChatGPT capture the essence of the conversation and write an article about it in my style and voice …
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