Wall Street Week Fan Favorite: AI in Higher Education and the Supply Chain, Trump’s Tariffs Hit Lesotho
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Nov 29, 2025 
In a thought-provoking dialogue, Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University and an innovator in higher education, shares how AI is transforming learning and assessment. He highlights the need for skills beyond what AI can teach. Lior Rahn, Co-founder of Uber Freight, discusses how AI and autonomy can optimize supply chains, enhancing efficiency and resilience. Taboho Kabeli, a Lesotho textile factory owner, provides insights into the economic impact of U.S. tariffs on local manufacturing, emphasizing the challenges faced by small economies.
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AI Makes Questions More Valuable Than Answers
- Michael Crow says AI is a hyperspeed reference library that makes questions more important than answers.
- He argues AI personalizes and intensifies learning but cannot teach values, grit, or lived experience.
Raise The Academic Bar For AI Era
- Raise assessment complexity and expect more from students to prevent shallow AI-assisted responses.
- Build evaluation systems that test a student's ability to ask, derive, and demonstrate thinking, not just outputs.
AI Compresses Research Timelines
- Crow reports AI can compress research timelines dramatically, enabling work equivalent to a dissertation in days.
- He predicts dramatically faster scientific progress and many more PhD-equivalent outputs per researcher.
