The University in the Age of AI: Rebuilding Trust, Truth, and Teaching with Kavita Bala | Ep 42

About this episode

Kavita Bala discusses the challenges and opportunities for universities in the age of AI and societal trust issues.

At a moment when higher education faces accelerating technological disruption and intensifying public scrutiny, Cornell Provost Kavita Bala argues that universities must do two things at once: defend their truth-seeking mission with renewed clarity, and reimagine how they teach, research, and engage society in an era shaped by AI, polarization, and declining trust.

People in this episode

Host: Heterodox Academy

Guest: Kavita Bala

Topics covered

• higher education
• AI
• trust
• truth-seeking
• teaching
• research
• society

Keywords

• higher education
• AI
• trust
• truth
• teaching
• Kavita Bala
• Cornell

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cornell

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