# AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman

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Podcast: [Oxide and Friends](https://stenobird.com/podcast/oxide-and-friends-5250129)
Published: 2025-10-17T14:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, professor at Brown University and Associate Provost for AI, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI in higher education. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Michael Littman. Previous, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm OxF s04e02 - Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison OxF s05e18 - AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Michael's home page Leslie Kaelbling Computing Up: Rich Sutton PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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