Is Higher Ed to Collapse from A.I.?
From Actual Intelligence with Steve Pearlman by Steve Pearlman, Ph.D.
September 9, 2025 · 44 min
About this episode
Steve Pearlman discusses the implications of artificial intelligence on higher education with Dr. Robert Neber.
Steve Pearlman: Today on actual intelligence, we have a very important and timely discussion with Dr. Robert Neber of a SU, whose recent opinion piece in inside higher education is titled AI and Higher Ed, and an impending collapse. Robert is a teaching professor and honors faculty fellow at the Barrett Honors College at a SU. And the reason that I invited him to speak with us today on actual intelligence is his perspective on artificial intelligence and education. And his contention roughly that higher Ed's rush to embrace artificial intelligence is going to lead us to some rather troubling places. So let's get to it with Dr. Robert Niebuhr. Robert. We talked a little bit about this on our pre-call, and I don't usually start a podcast like this, but what you said to me was so striking, so, uh, nauseating. So infuriating that I think it's a good place to begin and maybe some of [00:01:00] our listeners who value actual intelligence will also find it as appalling as I do, or at least a point of interest that needs to be talked about. You were in a meeting and we're not gonna talk about exactly, necessarily what that meeting was, but you're in a meeting with a number of other…
People in this episode
Host: Steve Pearlman
Guest: Dr. Robert Neber
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- higher education
- collapse
- faculty perspectives
- education challenges
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- higher education
- collapse
- faculty
- education
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Barrett Honors College, Inside Higher Education, A SU
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