BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the social contract, yet campus leaders press forward with AI partnerships and initiatives. Administrators and technology officers have signed multimillion dollar contracts with technology…
BY MARTHA LINCOLN AND MARTHA KENNEY Earlier this spring, we published an essay in Academe about the California State University’s secretive and costly initiative to provide ChatGPT Edu, a general-purpose AI chatbot, to all CSU faculty, students, and staff. With many colleagues at Cal State, we have spent the past year organizing against the “AI-Empowered…
BY MICHAEL FERGUSON Following is the editor’s introduction to the spring 2026 issue of Academe, “AI in the Corporate University,” out this week. The full issue and table of contents can be found here. The AAUP’S 2025 report Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions concludes with a call for faculty members to assert authority over their working conditions and their…