Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence

One of the more persistent modern promises of education is that students should become more capable and adaptable humans.

In January 2024, Governor Hochul announced the Empire AI project as a consortium of public and private NY universities, state funds, and corporate partners.

Torin Monahan published a fascinating study of “Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus” (OA) in Policing and Society.

The rhetoric of the higher education industry regarding artificial intelligence operates by the following premises.

At the start of the academic year, some version of “students these days” often arises.

For the first week of class, I’ve put together some of the recent findings from the Pew Research Center that addresses generational responses to AI.

In the last week, several reports detailed Apple’s plan to include cameras in the next version of their AirPods.

Anthropic’s announcement of its new watermarking feature has been causing some stir.

In 2026, there is consensus among the 38 public AAU universities that AI will provide a social benefit.

Last month, I wrote about “context laundering” in AI summarization.

The world of “AGI,” as it is broadly advertised, depends economically on inference becoming extremely inexpensive.

Amidst the talk of AI bubbles, perhaps you’ve encountered the concept of the Jevons Effect.