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An Indian university founder recently quoted Google AI in defence of his institution’s failure to back an under-fire academic. The incident exemplifies the threat posed to viewpoint diversity on campus by our increasing reliance on a tool trained to favour the majority view, says Saikat Majumdar 

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Will AI be the death of liberal arts in Asia?

An Indian university founder recently quoted Google AI in defence of his institution’s failure to back an under-fire academic. The incident exemplifies the threat posed to viewpoint diversity on campus by our increasing reliance on a tool trained to favour the majority view, says Saikat Majumdar 

14 July

Once, Australia offered generous scholarships to help overseas students gain an Australian degree. Now it relies on their fees to keep its HE system afloat. But with significant proportions of some developing countries’ students now studying abroad, has the model become too ‘extractive’? John Ross reports

This year’s marking season has confirmed for many academics that, less than three years since the launch of ChatGPT, AI use by students has become so rife that their submitted writing is no longer a reliable indicator of what they have learned. Three scholars offer their views on where to go from here

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