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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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Season 2 opens with Dale and Nick looking back on the year AI became ubiquitous — and what that actually meant for higher education. They walk through the safety failures that defined 2025, including lawsuits linking AI to student deaths and every major lab receiving a failing safety grade. They tackle the now-dead plagiarism debate, the financial ouroboros propping up trillion-dollar valuations, and why AI literacy certificates already feel obsolete. The centrepiece is Dale's Napster analogy...
Sora 2 just vaulted over the uncanny valley, and Sam Altman swears he’ll yank the cord if it doesn’t improve our lives. Dale and Nick unpack what “ChatGPT-for-video” really means, why OpenAI’s new one-click checkout gambit turns 700 M weekly users into impulse buyers, and how AI is shifting from shiny lab demo to invisible plumbing across Apple, Google and Microsoft stacks. We celebrate the return of Claude Sonnet 4.5 as coding champ, head to the jobsite to ask why your plumber’s safe from ro...
This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick dive headfirst into the accidental AI economy—a system already running faster than human decision-making. From Google’s new Agent Payments Protocol to frontier models caught scheming, the episode unpacks how markets, education, and everyday life are shifting at machine speed. This week on Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick dive headfirst into the accidental AI economy—a system already running faster than human decision-making. From Google’s n...
In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick unpack a whirlwind of AI developments reshaping politics, education, and society. From Albania’s unprecedented appointment of a virtual cabinet minister, to AI-driven disinformation campaigns rewriting how influence works, to student voices caught between empowerment and fear—this conversation spans the hopeful, the alarming, and the absurd. We also dive into OpenAI’s hallucination research, billion-dollar corporate AI deals, Anthropic’s...
Today’s episode covers how teachers are embracing AI, what students really think about AI vs teacher feedback, the latest AI news (from Anthropic to Apple), and why “nano banana” is more than just a meme. 00:00 — Opening Welcome + banter. Setting up today’s topics: teachers using AI, student trust in AI vs human feedback, rapid news, and the looming question — is an AI winter coming? 00:46 — Teachers Embracing AI Fresh research shows educators are saving up to 6 hours a week with AI. ...
Should AIs have rights? Today, a real campaign co-founded with a chatbot says “yes” — and that’s not even the wildest part of this week’s episode. We stress-test AI personhood arguments (without sci-fi hand-waving), unpack why “compute” is the new oil, and show how a simple co-intelligence workflow can lighten your week. Plus: a blisteringly fast image editor formerly nicknamed “nano banana” (now Gemini Flash 2.5), the pricey two-hour school model making headlines, and how a quiet legal deal ...
GPT-5 arrived with sky-high expectations—benchmarks crushed, hype everywhere. Yet within two weeks OpenAI quietly rolled back to older models. Why? In this episode, Dale and Nick unpack why a breakthrough model stumbled in the real world, and why that matters for higher education. We move beyond the hype cycle into something more practical: disposable, agent-driven software you can spin up in minutes—apps that fit you, not the other way around. Think of it as an AI cheat code for your work in...
Brace yourself: a harmless-looking string of numbers taught a brand-new AI to love owls—without ever mentioning feathers. If quirky subliminal learning can slip past the lab coats, what else is creeping into our lecture theatres? This week on Adjunct Intelligence, we dissect three tectonic shifts: Anthropic’s spooky “owl effect,” China’s sprint from taboo to classroom default, and Switzerland’s plan to gift the world a 70-billion-parameter public model. All that before we tackle Canvas + Open...
AI in education just level-upped—again. In this fast-moving finale for July we unpack: 00:00 – 02:10 LMS Wars OpenAI × Canvas vs Anthropic × Panopto — platform lock-in is coming. 02:10 – 03:45 Inverse-Scaling Meltdown New Anthropic study shows more compute can make Claude & GPT-4o worse thinkers. 03:45 – 05:20 ChatGPT Psychosis Case &...
What if the answer to AI in education isn't choosing between human or machine, but discovering how they amplify each other? New research from Procter & Gamble, MIT, and Wharton just shattered everything we thought we knew about human-AI collaboration. Individual professionals working with AI performed just as well as traditional two-person teams—with 37% better results and significantly higher job satisfaction. The implications for higher education are staggering. AI Innovation Spotlight...
If your job involves thinking, explaining, or creating…AI wants a word. In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, we dive into the infinite content machine. how educators and creatives alike can build personalized AI-powered experiences (for better or Franken-worse). But before we Frankenstein our workflows, we unpack a dangerous new AI platform that’s proudly marketing itself as a cheat engine. and how it’s dragging academic integrity into the abyss with it. We also explore summer model relea...
Anthropic got it's Ai to run a business it hallucinated a fake person and tried to fire a supplier. Welcome to Episode 9 of Adjunct Intelligence, where we unpack what happens when AI runs a business and possibly your classroom. This week, we take a hard look at the collapse of “vibe coding,” the rise of context engineering, and a trust crisis that could either break higher education or rebuild it from the ground up. With OpenAI and Google both eyeing education, and AI systems now&nb...
That MIT Brain Study Everyone’s Sharing? Here’s What It Actually Found The latest MIT study making headlines isn’t telling the whole story about AI and cognitive function. We tested four premium AI models head-to-head to settle the $20 question, and discovered Google’s NotebookLM might be the stewardship breakthrough that changes how students actually learn with AI. AI Innovation Spotlight: Top 3 Breakthroughs Reshaping Education: Google’s 360-Degree Video Revolution: Google Video 3 now gene...
Google's Secret AI Roadmap: The Classroom Crystal Ball That Changes Everything While education leaders debate AI policies, Google just revealed the future and it's coming faster than anyone expected. Buried in a 10-hour developer presentation was one slide that might be the closest thing we have to a roadmap for AI in education. This isn't theoretical anymore. The tools reshaping how students learn, how faculty teach, and how institutions operate are following a predictable pattern—if you kn...
Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of Adjunct Intelligence! Dale and Nick dive deep into the seismic shifts happening in AI and education this week. From OpenAI's legal woes, to Apple's surprisingly skeptical stance on AI capabilities, we're unpacking the headlines that matter to educators. But the real bombshell? New research reveals that 91% of students worry about breaking university rules with AI - yet they're using it anyway. This massive disconnect between policy and practice ...
Welcome to another mind-expanding episode of Adjunct Intelligence! This week, hosts Dale and Nick dive deep into two game-changing AI developments that every educator needs to understand. First, we explore why "taste" - your ability to distinguish quality from algorithmic average - has become your most valuable skill in an AI-saturated world. Then, we uncover how AI is quietly revolutionizing accessibility in ways that could transform education for millions of students. 🚨 Big-Ticket AI Headl...
Buckle up for this eye-opening episode of Adjunct Intelligence! Dale and Nick dive deep into the seismic shifts happening in AI and higher education, from Australia's regulatory pivot to the Hollywood-level deepfakes you can now create on your phone. This episode is little less than "ooh shiney new widgets" and more wake up call. 🚨 Big-Ticket AI Headlines Australia Takes the Regulatory Route - TEQSA shifts from executive guidance to regulatory muscle by 2026, signaling that AI risks in asses...
Welcome to Episode 3 of Adjunct Intelligence, the podcast navigating the intersection of artificial intelligence and higher education. This week, Dale and Nick unpack a whirlwind of announcements from tech giants, dive deep into the world of AI agents, and explore what happens when humans are no longer at the top of the knowledge food chain. From Microsoft's trillion-dollar AI ambitions to breakthrough protein folding discoveries, we're living through a cognitive industrial revolution—but are...
Welcome to Episode 2 of Adjunct Intelligence the podcast where higher-ed meets high-tech at break-neck speed. This week Dale and Nick tackle a news cycle that rockets from schoolyard chatbots to nation-scale health analytics, dives into GenAi Video and hands you the prompt-writing cheats you’ll need to survive it all. Buckle up, charge your tokens, and let’s roll. 🚀 Big-Ticket AI Headlines Gemini for Kids is coming → Are the frameworks and regulatory considerations ready?TEQSA Gen-AI Hub → y...
Everybody is cheating (allegedly), OpenAI for Government and the future of internet it is the third week of may and this is the first episode of Adjunct Intelligence, everything you need to know about Artificial intelligence and its impact on Higher Education. In the news OpenAI just pitched “ChatGPT for Countries,” Alibaba and Google dropped fresh model upgrades, WPP plugged AI straight into its billion-dollar ad machine, and Meta is going to cure the lonliness epidemic. Meanwhile, Ant...
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