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 https://youtu.be/X-KzyPRdcmc

Guests:
D. Graham Burnett, historian of science and technology at Princeton University
https://history.princeton.edu/....people/d-graham-burn

Additional Reading:
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.newyorker.com/cult....ure/the-weekend-essa

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: https://www.tiktok.com/@hardfork

Insta:
Kevin Roose - https://www.instagram.com/kevinroose/
Casey Newton - https://www.instagram.com/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/hard-fork/id
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/....44fllCS2FTFr2x2kjP9x
Amazon - https://music.amazon.com/podca....sts/7c7fe198-e6a8-41
YouTube Music - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9gMmtMLXxsa8C0PzHFL2tJFh7FrKrYD&si=Fwb9Uwon1ZneNsBp
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