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

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

Digital Sovereignty and Trustworthy Systems

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

LearnTech and The Future of Work

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

Core Skills for the AI Generation, Uncategorized

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.

The question is not whether AI writes, but whether humans still think

Artificial Inteligence, Education & Tech Literacy

AI, writing and the future of human thinking: why AI detection misses the point, and why education should value cognition, judgement and intellectual process over polished prose.

Learning in the Age of AI and the Value of Interdisciplinary Education

Uncategorized

What is a degree worth when AI can automate so much of what graduates are trained to do? In the latest 3CL Conversation Series, the panel makes the case for interdisciplinary education that pairs deep domain mastery with the humanities, and asks how universities can form engaged citizens and capable workers at once in the age of AI.

Agents of Chaos: Values, Context, and the Problem of Accountability

Critical Literacies & Human Agency

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

Digital Sovereignty and Trustworthy Systems

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

Critical Literacies & Human Agency

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.

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