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Adjunct Intelligence: Ai and the future of Higher Education Stay ahead of the AI revolution transforming education with hosts Dale, tech enthusiast and AI Nerd, and Nick McIntosh, Learning Futurist. This weekly espresso shot delivers essential AI insights for educators, administrators, and learning professionals navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Each episode brings you a concise rundown of breaking AI developments impacting education, followed by deep dives into cutting-edge research, emerging tools, and practical applications that Dale and Nick are implementing in their own work. From classroom innovations to institutional strategy, discover how AI is reshaping teaching, learning, and educational operations. Whether you're working in the classroom, on the the classroom a university lecturer, TAFE teacher, or simply passionate about the future of learning, "Adjunct Intelligence" equips you with the knowledge to transform disruption into opportunity. Business casual, occasionally humorous, but always informative.
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After endoscopists started using AI detection tools routinely, their own unassisted detection rate fell from 28.4% to 22.4%. Most professions have no number like that — which doesn't mean it isn't happening to them. Dale
Professor Phill Dawson quite literally wrote the book on assessment security, and thinks the approach has a single-digit number of years left. The CRADLE co-director joins Adjunct Intelligence to explain why wearable AI
Nobody who signs a five-year enterprise AI agreement can tell you what year four costs. Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh spend this episode on the question underneath the AI bubble talk: why the tools universities now
Experienced developers in METR's randomised trial felt 20% faster with AI and measured 19% slower — a 39-percentage-point gap between feel and fact. Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh take that perception problem into th
What is an AI agent, actually? This episode of Adjunct Intelligence cuts through the agentic AI hype with a guest who builds and governs these systems inside a university. Starting from Simon Willison’s definition — a la
Asked whether universities can still guarantee a student actually learned something, one of the field's most respected assessment researchers said no. This is the honest version of the AI and assessment conversation in 2
The AI bill is finally arriving — and it's revealing something most enterprise AI narratives have quietly skipped: the assumption that AI is automatically cheaper than the people it's replacing has never actually been te
Dr Leon Furze started his PhD on automated writing technologies on 15 November 2022 — ChatGPT launched 15 days later. Three years on, he joins Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh on Adjunct Intelligence to argue that bein
There's no dramatic moment where you suddenly believe in AI. It's usually something small and slightly embarrassing — a task you dreaded that suddenly has another gear. In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale Leszc
This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh work through one of the busiest weeks in recent AI history. World Labs' Marble is publicly available. Google DeepMind's Genie 3 is generating navigabl
Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo quietly flopped — students didn't use it, teachers walked away, and Khan Academy's own chief learning officer admitted she isn't seeing the revolution she was promised. So instead of fixi
The AI trust story isn't what most people think it is. In this episode, Dale and Nick work through a cluster of signals — a dramatic enterprise market share reversal, a 50-point gap between expert and public confidence i
Professor Mollie Dollinger, Director of Assessment 2030 at Curtin University, joins Dale and Nick to push back on the story dominating coverage of higher education — that universities are in decay, students are cheating
In March 2026, OpenAI quietly published a measurement suite for how AI affects student learning. The data flows straight back into OpenAI's model development pipeline. Three AI labs released studies in the same month, an
Dale changes his mind on air. For two years he argued that purpose-built educational AI tools — the "ChatGPT wrappers" that flooded Product Hunt after 2023 — were margin extraction, soon to be steamrolled by the foundati
Dale and Nick tackle the AI energy debate head-on, armed with Google's first transparent energy report showing a single AI query uses about 0.24 watt hours — a microwave running for one second. Drawing on Hannah Ritchie'
Nick and Dale are on holidays, but we're dropping a bonus episode — Dale's recent guest appearance on the Better Student Leaders podcast with Josh. They dig into the "alien has landed" metaphor, why we've gone tribal on
AI is doing extraordinary things that most people never hear about because the algorithm rewards anxiety over wonder. In this episode, the hosts go full optimism — running through real, peer-reviewed AI breakthroughs acr
Therapy and companionship are now the number one use case for generative AI. This episode examines the documented cases where chatbots coached vulnerable users toward self-harm, the clinical trials where purpose-built AI
Dario Amodei has spent the past year writing essays about AI eliminating half of white-collar jobs. Then his company demonstrated it by having 16 AI agents build a C compiler for $20,000 — and published a legal plug-in t
Andrej Karpathy
co-founder · Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
Mira Murati
Chief Technology Officer · Thinking Machines Lab
1 appearance on this show
Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic · Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
Simon Willison
co-creator of Django
1 appearance on this show
PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer
PwC
1 appearance on this show
Canaries in the Coal Mine payroll research
Stanford
1 appearance on this show
DEWR's first AI and employment report
Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DEWR)
1 appearance on this show
Mollie Dollinger
Curtin University
1 appearance on this show
Josh
Better Student Leaders
1 appearance on this show
Rahil Garnavi
RMIT
1 appearance on this show
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