How This Tech Journalist Would Actually Use AI on a College Campus | Casey Newton @ Platformer

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Casey Newton spends his week talking to the people building AI, and he brought a room full of higher education leaders an uncomfortable message. Inside those companies, student safety and mental health are treated as unfortunate edge cases, staffed so the CEO never has to think about them. What counts as high stakes is revenue and user growth. His conclusion, delivered live at The Vineyard: nobody is coming to protect your students, so you had better do it yourself. Newton founded Platformer and co-hosts Hard Fork. He has covered tech since 2010, which gives him a useful yardstick. Most of the transformations he has written about took three to five years to unfold. Most of what he told this…