5 Counter-Intuitive Truths About the Future of Higher Education in the Age of AI

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A degree used to be a ticket to a good job, but AI is now taking over the entry-level tasks that gave graduates their first foothold. In the latest 3CL podcast, three students discuss why they still choose university, and what it must change to stay worthwhile.

Beyond the Rhetoric of Digital Sovereignty: A Gen Z Perspective

You mention a product to a friend, and moments later it appears in your feed. That moment reveals the "black box" behind our screens. This post unpacks what digital sovereignty really means, why EU policy alone falls short, and how Gen Z can move from being data points to exercising real digital agency.

Legal AI, Education, and the Risk of Cognitive Conformity

A blind study found law professors prefer AI answers to human ones in roughly three-quarters of cases. The risk is not accuracy but conformity: students may learn the form of legal reasoning without the judgement behind it.

AI’s Impact on the Labour Market: Too Many Forecasts, Too Little Clarity

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AI's impact on work is genuinely contested: one study finds no job losses, another sees the market splitting in two, a tech founder predicts labour shortages. Every measure differs, and the loudest voices oversimplify.
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Agents of Chaos: Values, Context, and the Problem of Accountability

The paper Agents of Chaos let AI agents loose in a live environment for two weeks, revealing failures of accountability that isolated, sandboxed tests would never surface, raising urgent governance questions.

What Viral Emotion Challenges Reveal About Data Extraction

Every few months a new format takes over social media, and most of them are gone within weeks. This one's different: it asks people to say the same sentence in a handful of emotions, and it turns out that's almost exactly what AI companies need to train systems to recognise how we feel.

3CL signs an MOU with the Institute of Network Cultures

The 3CL Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of Network Cultures, the Amsterdam-based research hub founded by Geert Lovink. Executive Director Alex Grech reflects on 16-year of common interests between the two organisations: critical digital literacy, open-access publishing, and life after the platforms.

As the EU and Platforms Clash, AI Is Making Online Risks Worse

The EU's latest Digital Services Act report finds AI is intensifying the risks facing minors online, from AI-generated abuse imagery to grooming chatbots. But regulators and platforms still can't agree on what "systemic risk" means, exposing a deeper fight over transparency, moderation limits, and who really controls these platforms.

Asking the Right Questions in the Age of AI: Malta and the Boissevain Legacy

Jeremy Boissevain’s question about why the Maltese "ask so few questions" feels newly relevant in the age of AI. This article argues that critical questioning is now an essential digital skill.

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