What is A.I. Doing to Higher Education? | Interview

This week, Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett joins us to discuss the existential threat that A.I. poses to the traditional humanities degree and why he believes we’ll see thousands of new schools emerge outside the university system to carry on the exploration of what it means to be a person in the world. This is a clip from Hard Fork episode 152    • How Alpha School Is Bringing A.I. to the C...   Guests: D. Graham Burnett, historian of science and technology at Princeton University https://history.princeton.edu/people/... Additional Reading: Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the... Hard Fork is a weekly look into the future that's already here. Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the bleeding edge of tech. Casey’s publication, Platformer: https://www.platformer.news/ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL TikTok:   / hardfork   Insta: Kevin Roose -   / kevinroose   Casey Newton -   / crumbler   Twitter (X): Kevin - https://x.com/kevinroose Casey - https://x.com/CaseyNewton Threads: Kevin - https://www.threads.net/@kevinroose Casey - https://www.threads.net/@crumbler Subscribe to the audio only podcast: Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/44fllCS... Amazon - https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7c7... YouTube Music -    • Hard Fork   The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Credits “Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. Produced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney Jones. Engineering by Alyssa Jane Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Caitlin Love. Our executive producer is Jen Poyant. Video production by Chris Schodt, Sawyer Roque, and Jake Nicol. Video QC by Isabella Anderson. Podcast Art Direction by Benjamin Wilkerson Tousley. Podcast Art & Animations by Julian Hespenheide. Additional Motion graphics by Phil Robibero. Thumbnails by Julia Moburg, Elizabeth Bristow, and Yvonne Stender. Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Niko Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda