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Sep 3, 2026
Ep. 211: Paul LeBlanc’s Optimistic Vision for Higher Ed in an AI World
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19:31Paul LeBlancGUEST
Our embodied selves, as the term is sometimes used, right? If you think about dance and theater performance and presence, right? Our creative selves.
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19:40Paul LeBlancGUEST
And even, you know, I was talking to my colleague Tessa Forshaw at Harvard, where I'm doing some teaching now, and she was saying that one of the reasons that AI creativity is so meh is because real human creativity comes when two ideas sit farther apart in your synaptic network.
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19:59Paul LeBlancGUEST
And it's your ability as an individual, highly idiosyncratic, to start making connections and link.
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20:06Paul LeBlancGUEST
You know, you've ever had that reaction like you read an amazing novel or you listen to a piece of music like Rosalia's Luxe, my favorite music of last year.
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34:31Paul LeBlancGUEST
So, Yeah, I mean, I think there's much greater awareness of the dangers this time around.
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34:39Paul LeBlancGUEST
And I will sort of see a response.
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34:41Paul LeBlancGUEST
And this is, again, where, you know, at Harvard, my aforementioned colleague, Tessa Forshaw, were part of a new effort to create and stand up a new AI and education center called Compass AI at Harvard Graduate School of Ed.
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34:54Paul LeBlancGUEST
But part of the work there is to surface the best research we today have on these questions regarding AI and learning and developmental psychology and stages for kids.