Education and AI w/ Jose Vargas

About this episode

The episode discusses the future of education in the context of the AI revolution with guest Jose Vargas.

In this episode, Susan Wise Bauer and Susanna Jarrett welcome Jose Vargas to the podcast to discuss the future of education in the wake of the AI revolution. (00:00) - Intro with Jose Vargas (02:42) - The onset of Generative AI (04:51) - Example uses of AI and the drawbacks (09:03) - The levels that Jose works with (10:56) - AI in animation (15:50) - The Student-Teacher dynamic (or lack thereof) (20:24) - What has changed for teachers and students (28:06) - Break (29:06) - Safeguards for final work (37:25) - What to know before kids hit freshman year of college (43:17) - Learning HOW it's happening (46:57) - Learning how to maintain your sovereignty over your work (51:09) - We could keep going! (53:18) - Outro

People in this episode

Hosts: Susan Wise Bauer, Susanna Jarrett

Guest: Jose Vargas

Topics covered

• education
• AI
• Generative AI
• student-teacher dynamic
• safeguards in education

Keywords

• education
• AI
• Generative AI
• student-teacher dynamic
• safeguards
• college readiness
• sovereignty over work

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