AI, academia, and the Future
Bryan AlexanderExploring where emerging AI might take colleges and universities, and everyone else.
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Three years of this newsletter
Somehow three years have passed here!
In late May 2023 I set up this newsletter, establishing its format, learning the interface. Here’s what I promised to do: “This Substack explores possible futures for AI and the academia, based on res...
AI and culture in spring 2026
Greetings from a weird weather May, where temperatures have whipsawed us from the 60s to the 90s in the mid-Atlantic. We’ve lurched from parched dryness to multi-day rains. It’s not a bad way to think of summer work in the academy with its...
AI can be like a robot at the gym
Lately I‘ve been using a small, simple analogy to illustrate some ways by which individuals use AI. I thought I heard it from someone else, but can’t source it, so I wanted to get the idea out there.
I also wanted to try a short post, afte...
The economics of AI in spring 2026
The occupations that are seeing the greatest productivity boosts [from AI] are also the occupations that are seeing the greatest job risk.
-Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business
The Fletcher School, Tufts University (source)
Gre...
AI and the Iran war
How is the Iran war impacting AI? What roles does the technology play in that conflict? And in what ways might that dynamic unfold?
In this post we’ll begin by looking at evidence from the war so far, tracing out first order effects. Next...
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Futurist specializing in the future of higher education. Author of _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_. Senior scholar at Georgetown University. Convener of the Future Trends Forum.
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