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Reqless: Software in the Age of AI

Clay Shirky: AI for Higher Education

Feb 18, 2025
37:21

How is generative AI transforming the university? On this week’s Reqless, Paul and Rich sit down with someone on the front lines of AI in higher ed: Clay Shirky, a longtime educator and technologist who’s currently the Vice Provost of Educational Technologies at New York University. Clay outlines how the university’s approach to AI has shifted from semester to semester over the past few years, and then digs into the reasons why widespread student adoption of AI is worrying the faculty—and the students themselves.

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