Students move across California’s public higher education systems all the time. Their access to AI tools, training, and infrastructure does not necessarily move with them.

In this episode of My Robot Teacher, Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue talk with David Goldberg of San Diego State University, Michelle Fischthal of the San Diego Community College District, and Dan Suchy of UC San Diego about the “Equitable AI Alliance” a regional partnership working across institutional boundaries to address that gap.

Two eyes can see something neither eye can see alone. Could the same be true of two disciplines—and could AI help connect them?

Sarah and Taiyo argued for thirteen hours. An AI mediator helped them recognize what their different vocabularies were hiding.

What if your conversations could become a shared map of how you think—and a way to understand each other better the next time you disagree?

What kinds of struggle are essential to learning and what kinds of drudgery should we be happy to hand off to AI? Leah Belsky, who

The chancellor of one of the world’s leading public research universities explains why UC San Diego is building its own AI infrastructure—and why universities must stop confusing slow decision-making with thoughtful decision-making.

C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation at AAC&U and coauthor of Teaching with AI, joins Sarah and Taiyo to ask how colleges can prepare students for an AI-shaped workplace when both the technology and the workplace itself are still changing. They discuss curricular agility, discipline-specific AI literacy, cognitive sovereignty, and why institutional context should shape how universities teach with AI.

C. Edward Watson, Vice President for Digital Innovation at AAC&U and coauthor of Teaching with AI, joins Sarah and Taiyo to ask how colleges can prepare students for an AI-shaped workplace when both the technology and the workplace itself are still changing. They discuss curricular agility, discipline-specific AI literacy, cognitive sovereignty, and why institutional context should shape how universities teach with AI.