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What happens when AI crashes into the classroom?When ChatGPT rolled out across the California State University (CSU) system, it sparked a wide range of faculty responses - from panic to full adoption.
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Ep19 - The Math of Thinking Together — with David Spivak (opens the original)
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Applied category theorist and Topos Institute co-founder David Spivak joins Sarah and Taiyo to explore the mathematics of thinking together. They begin with a question that runs through the episode: when does a resemblance between two fields become useful enough to carry knowledge from one into the other? From epidemics and information to the institutional conditions for adopting AI, they explore how recognizing shared structures can open up questions we would not otherwise know to ask. David ex
Ep18 - What Should Students Still Struggle Through? OpenAI’s Leah Belsky on AI, Agency, and Education’s Future (opens the original)
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What kinds of struggle are essential to learning and what kinds of drudgery should we be happy to hand off to AI? Leah Belsky, who leads education at OpenAI , joins My Robot Teacher to talk about one of the hardest questions facing educators in the age of AI: where to draw the line between productive friction and work that technology can usefully remove. Drawing on her work at OpenAI , her experience at Coursera , and her own life as a parent, Belsky makes the case for preserving the forms of di
Ep17 - Why UC San Diego Runs Its Own AI: Chancellor Pradeep Khosla on Higher Education’s Future (opens the original)
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UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla joins My Robot Teacher to explain why large public universities need to move faster on AI, and why “mandated coordination” may be the wrong way to get there. An internationally renowned electrical and computer engineer and co-chair of the University of California’s AI Steering Committee, Khosla has pushed one of the world’s leading public research universities to build its own AI infrastructure and experiment with new forms of teaching and student support.
Ep16 - Is Learning to Code Still Worth It? John DeNero on Computational Thinking in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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AI can write code, and it writes it well. So what remains worth teaching? UC Berkeley computer scientist John DeNero joins Sarah and Taiyo to make the case for computational thinking — abstraction, decomposition, and the intuition that tells you when an output is wrong — as general education rather than vocational training. Along the way: why programmers get more out of AI coding tools than non-programmers, what an “AI agent” actually is, and why a CS degree is becoming less like a trade and mor
Ep15 - How Can Higher Education Keep Up With AI? C. Edward Watson on Curriculum Reform (opens the original)
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C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation at AAC&U and coauthor of Teaching with AI , joins Sarah and Taiyo to ask how colleges can prepare students for an AI-shaped workplace when both the technology and the workplace itself are still changing. They discuss curricular agility, discipline-specific AI literacy, cognitive sovereignty, and why institutional context should shape how universities teach with AI.
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