Has AI Destroyed Education? (w/ Vlasta Sikimić) @RahulSam

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“ChatGPT has unravelled the entire academic project”, writes James Walsh, in a viral article on NY magazine titled ‘Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.’ In this episode, social epistemologist of science and philosopher of education Dr Vlasta Sikimic, in her 4th appearance on the podcast, discusses whether AI and large language models have, in fact, unravelled the entire academic project? And if so, how should we reconceive education? And what remains for the university?

Dr Vlasta Sikimić is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focus is on the Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI & ML in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education.

You can find more of Dr Sikimić's work at vlastasikimic.com

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