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AI raises the premium on human judgment

Guests keep returning to AI as a disruption of teaching, assessment and work. Most conclude that judgment, empathy, human connection and the humanities matter more, not less. This is carried mainly by guests; Daniel adds a worry about outsourcing judgment. One guest sees AI as eroding community.

How it developed: It began as speculation about teaching. It moved to practical rollout and assessment (E16, E23), then to a darker community critique (E24). It ends with judgment and wisdom as the university's role.

The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.

What was said

“when we look at what's actually going to be required of humans, it will likely be to come from what we would have traditionally called the liberal arts, social sciences, and humanities.”
— Vivek Goel, guest · The doctor will see you now | Dr. Vivek Goel on Leadership and AI · [28:49]
“The connection of care can't be done through a terminal.”
— Mark Walton, guest · Leading like a jazz conductor, not a classical maestro | Mark Walton · [37:18]
“But the flip side of that is it has thrown into deep question the meaning of a university qualification. Why? Because many of the traditional approaches that we took to validate students' understanding and learning are no longer valid.”
— Iain Martin, guest · Between the Dance Floor and the Balcony | Iain Martin · [28:58]
“as extraordinary as generative AI is, large language models don't think. Human beings think.”
— Duncan Ivison, guest · Philosophy, AI and the Mess of Leading: the future of institutions in a rapidly changing world | Duncan Ivison · [15:38]
“I just had some diagrams to do and I, I just sketched them out, sent them to AI, got them back, asked them to correct it, and that's it. It's putting everybody else out of business, artists, translators, it's awful.”
— Henry Mintzberg, guest · Henry Mintzberg: Rebalancing Society Before It's Too Late · [21:40]
“And I think actually the art of reflection is actually lost too, because in some ways, some people, you know, you know, when they're really quite busy and, and, you know, going from meeting to meeting and, and, you know, having a quite full life, they're actually in some ways outsourcing their judgment and their decision making and all that stuff to actually, you know, AI or, or, or, or, you know, o-o-other things.”
— Daniel Atlin, guest · Ep 224, Messy: Making Sense of the Mess of Leadership · [11:31]

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