Podcasts

Ah yes, podcasts. The links to the sites for this assignment didn't work for me, so I turned to Spotify. Which, aside from music, also has its fair share of podcasts.

The podcast I chose relates to the AI project assignment quite a lot. It talks about AI and its threats to higher education. There's many points made, such as the fact that we do not know the capabilities of AI, meaning we don't know how far it could go. Another point is that it will likely take over education sectors and replace teachers. It also points out that higher education is not currently prepared to handle these challenges and to deal with the emerging AI landscape that young people will be living in.

These are some pretty big concerns! The first one being frightening because we know that AI is the future and that it will go far and become a routine part of life. However, we don't know how radically our lives could change because of that. We don't know all the implications of AI because we can't predict the future and we can't know how far it will be able to develop.

The second is another concern because teachers will be losing their jobs and students will be taught by robots. While I can see how this would be beneficial, as AI has greater access to information that a teacher, it puts a lot of people out of jobs. Additionally, it prevents students from developing those interpersonal, human relationships that would occur between a mentor and student.

Finally, the US higher education system is not prepared to face the crisis that will be caused by AI. It's scary that so many students are spending incredible amounts of money of education, yet will likely struggle to get out of debt due to the job crisis likely to be caused by AI.

New Books Network. (n.d.). Global Media & Communication. Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/4byiaFGNiTpb8gfAz1VkhF?si=d0ce0e306a6945f0

Lynch, S. (2017a, March 11). Andrew Ng: Why ai is the new electricity. Stanford Graduate School of Business. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/andrew-ng-why-ai-new-electricity