# Clay Shirky

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How A.I. is getting in the way of real learning

College students sometimes get in trouble for using A.I. to complete assignments, but is there a way to use it as a teaching tool? Clay Shirky, vice provost for A.I. and technology in education at New York University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how professors are using A.I. in the classroom an…

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Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: One of the things that’s really important, whether you’re talking about product principles or company values, is you have to be able to negate them, cause otherwise you don’t use them to r…

Feature Interview: Using AI to avoid hard conversations

The problem with artificial intelligence in education comes down to two problems. Somehow, educators need to encourage using AI creatively while discouraging taking lazy shortcuts. This is what Clay Shirky thinks, and he's the vice provost for A.I. and technology in education at New York University…

The Giant Referendum On Everything

For the past month, journalists have been reporting on the anxieties of furloughed federal workers. This week, On the Media learns that many reporters face a new threat to their own job security. Plus, an on-screen dramatization of Brexit, and a likely sea-change in Youtube's rankings.  1. Dave Kri…

Big, If True

Cambridge Analytica claims that, with the help of 50 million Facebook users' data, it was able to target ads so specifically and so effectively that it helped swing the election for Donald Trump. The media have been more than happy to boost the claim, but many experts are skeptical. This week, a lo…

What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

In Episode 39 of Occasionally Philosophical, Mark and Doug start with the image of the Ouroboros — the snake eating its own tail — and use it as a way into a larger conversation about the internet, commentary culture, algorithms, outrage, and attention.What happens when YouTubers comment on YouTube…