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Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI

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This podcast draw listeners into an ongoing conversation inside one university as it faces the promises and pressures of artificial intelligence. Each episode brings voices from across Calvin University—students and seasoned faculty, media researchers and business thinkers, theologians, technologists, and campus leaders—who are all asking how AI is reshaping learning, creativity, and Christian intellectual life. Rather than offering final answers, the podcast opens a shared space for questions: What should guide our imaginations now? How do we teach, study, and lead well in this time?

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Early-Careerists Are Overwhelmed 28.02.2026 26:44

Episode 5 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI shifts the mic to those who will inherit the world most shaped by artificial intelligence: emerging scholars and young professionals. The conversation features Adam Plowman, Dacey Redman, Taheer Alibhai, Alex Johnson, and Chloe Yonkus—graduate students and rising professionals from Calvin University's Masters of Media and Strategic Communicati...

What Kind of World Do We Want to Live in? 28.02.2026 38:48

Episode 4 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI brings together a rich variety of perspectives: ESL instructor Sara Vander Bie, graphic design professor Christopher Fox, chaplain Mary Hulst, and dean Kyle Small. Each one works daily with students who cross cultural, linguistic, or generational boundaries—and each one is wrestling with what AI means for the life we wish for and the world we...

Can Learning Go Slow When Tech Goes Fast? 28.02.2026 37:00

In a world where everything is speeding up—information, expectations, distractions—how do we learn well? In Episode 3 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI , a theologian, a communication scholar, and a computer scientist--Sam Ha, Katie Day Good, and Fernando Santos--explore the tensions between unavoidable acceleration and indispensable friction. Together they unpack why meaningful educatio...

Do Students Need to Recall Anything? 28.02.2026 35:50

Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI returns for Episode 2 with a conversation about the sometimes unsettling invitations of Generative AI for liberal arts educators. Drawing on the insights of a technologist, a media specialist, a supply-chain professor, and an adult-learning administrator--Ken Arnold, Katie Day Good, Philip Johnson, and Abbie Lipsker—this episode explores fresh ideas for tec...

Early Findings from Our Experiments with AI 28.02.2026 38:23

Episode 1 brings together voices from across Calvin University to explore how AI is reshaping creativity, learning, and institutional life. What role should friction and difficulty play in learning? Art historian Craig Hanson , Calvin vice president Sarah Visser , double‑major (Entrepreneurship & Computer Science) undergraduate Pauline Lu , and documentary filmmaker Sam Smartt join host ...