Bryan Alexander

Education futurist. Author of Universities on Fire, Peak Higher Ed, and the AI, Academia, and the Future newsletter. Creator of the Future Trends Forum.

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@BorowitzReport :

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Dartmouth provost resigns over AI user and is “leaving the university”:

https://t.co/VqI7Y6jspi

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Nice:

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Jimmy Stewart and zombies, mashed up the old fashioned way. Our short film It’s a Wonderful Night of the Living Dead took a year to make, ended up playing in a few Oscar-qualifying film festivals, and is now available to watch from your toilet.

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How might we rethink higher education as something other than a business proposition?

Here's our full Future Trends Forum conversation with the University of Virginia's Chad Wellmon:
https://t.co/Ev5l64KNLL

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@ralphbakshi These guys mesmerized and scared the hell out of me as a kid. Brilliant - more!

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@Fredosphere Nain rouge!

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Interesting examples from St. Thomas:

https://t.co/9sYIVyX6fZ

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Have any of you academics seen a college or university officially label a class as AI-intensive, using AI a lot, or anything along those lines?

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@DavidJRowePhD Thank you!

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How might AI change higher ed, and how can academics best respond?

This Thursday the Future Trends Forum hosts Paul LeBlanc to discuss his new book, _Reclaiming Purpose: The University in an AI World_:
https://t.co/EdYmS1aWRv

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@notjessewalker Nice!

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#WalterKoenig was brilliant as Bester on Babylon-5.

"In the course of her debriefing and dissec—that is, examination..."

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Sunset in town:

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@richardmantool It really is. So bleak and sad.

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I was entertained by this bit of phrasing:

"the president had this bold goal to have four new reactor designs go critical by the Fourth of July."

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This interview with Trump's science advisor, Michael Kratsios, is horrific. Tyler Cowen puts forward good questions and Kratsios emits such pure spin and BS.

https://t.co/uV7L8dADqv

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@Fredosphere I would consider collecting these.

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The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.

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This is delightful:

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Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods (freely translated by @daniel_m_lavery) https://t.co/pNAuEKsdUH

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I saw a stochastic parrot shirt in the wild tonight.
Local death metal show, Manassas, Virginia.