Caitlin Green

I'm David Cooper.

This is The Last Show.

And I do wonder because the future of education hangs in the balance.

Universities are racing to embrace AI, AI tutors, AI graders, AI feedback, basically artificial intelligence, everything.

But what if replacing professors with chatbots doesn't make education smarter and better?

It just makes the whole system a little bit

Full of BS?

Enter BS University.

I am here with philosophy professor at Monash University in Australia, Robert Sparrow, who's written a paper that has an amazing name.

It has the word BS in it about this whole topic.

Robert, welcome to the show.

G'day.

So, let's start here.

Your paper has one of the most delightfully blunt academic titles I've ever seen, BS University.

Before we get into the argument, what is the BS we're talking about here?

Is it the AI?

Is it the hype?

Is it the direction universities are going?

to ascribe a want to it or something that they're trying to do.

I suppose it's just put money in the AI company's pockets or do whatever its authors want it to do.