Adjunct Intelligence: AI + HE
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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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S2E15 You Don't Learn AI From Trend Reports — You Learn It by Poking at It
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…
S2E14 So, we need to talk about world models
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…
S2E13 The AI Tutor Flopped, So They Built the AI University
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…
S2E11 The Legitimacy Winter: Why AI's Real Problem Isn't Capability
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…
S2E10 Mollie Dollinger on the HE Decay Narrative — and Why It's Wrong
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,…
S2E10 The Closed Loop: AI Companies as Education Researchers
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…
S2E9 The data is in: Using AI impacts the classroom
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…
S2E8 The AI Energy conversation just got some real data.
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.…
Bonus Episode: Being Human in an AI World (feat. Better Student Leaders)
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…
S2E7 The Good News Episode: AI Breakthroughs That Actually Happened
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…
S2E6 Sycophancy Kills: What Happens When AI Is Optimised for Engagement
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…
S2E5 If AI Can do it, Why Teach it? The Education Question Nobody Wants to Answer
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…
S2E4 China is winning the AI Adoption War. We Just Haven't Admitted It Yet.
In 2025, the AI race quietly split in two: one for building the smartest model, and another for getting everyone to use yours. Chinese labs chose the second race — and the data says they're winning.…
S2E3 The MoltBot Moment: When Enthusiastic Adopters Become the Biggest AI Risk
In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh examine what the viral MoltBot AI assistant reveals about AI security risks in education. They break down Simon Willison's…
S2E2 2026 Predictions: When the CEO Can Prompt Better Than Your Graduate
When the CEO has been using Claude for 18 months and the CFO runs financial scenarios through Gemini weekly, what exactly is a graduate bringing to the table? That's the question this episode forces.…
S2E1 2025: The Year AI Stopped Being a Tool and Became Infrastructure
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…
S1E19 Sora 2 & Robots: Altman’s six-month “fix it or nix it” ultimatum + Robots are coming, kinda
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…
S1E18 The Accidental AI Economy: When Agents Run the Market + The Empire of Ai
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…
Why Ai Adoption is a Marathon not a Sprint
In this episode of Adjunct Intelligence, Dale and Nick sit down with Professor Rahil Garnavi, Director of RAISE Hub at RMIT and former IBM Research leader with 50+ AI patents. Rahil shares her unique…
S1E17 Disinformation, Deals & Delia the new Ai member of Government: Ai is getting crunchy
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…
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Adjunct Intelligence: AI + HE has published 36 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Education, News.
Adjunct Intelligence: AI + HE is currently active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 29m.
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