When AI Acts Like an Oracle, Where Does College Fit?

Modern AI systems follow a logic of prediction to deliver their answers. Sociologist Mona Sloane sees a cultural precedent for ascribing so much power to a predictive system — the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece. 

Works mentioned in this episode:

“Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life,” by Mona Sloane.

“How Colleges Can Safeguard Democracy in an AI Era,” a past episode of Learning Curve.

“Gaseous Emissions at Oracle of Delphi Entranced the Pythia,” in Scientific American.

“The Law of Prediction,” by Ari Ezra Waldman, in SSRN.

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EPISODE CREDITS: 

Reported and produced by Jeff Young

Music by Komiku

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