Image generated using Dall-E from the prompt “College professor having trouble pushing an iceberg with a robot embedded in it, black and white editorial cartoon style." A text overlay reads, "If the chatbot can solve your problems, does higher education still matter?"

AI, Higher Ed and the Hype Cycle

Is AI going to make our lives worse? An interesting study came out recently from Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (Rainie and Husser 2024) that sort of asked that question, in relation to deep fakes (United States Government Accountability Office 2020) and politics…