Live from Google NYC: AI, Now What?

Future U Podcast by Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn

Sep 15, 202600:55:05Education

Higher ed has spent four years managing AI through policies, restrictions, and isolated pilots. That approach bought time, but is time running out? Students are caught in a patchwork of incoherent expectations, and the l...

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