In 2024, generative AI is on track to become more powerful and more present in our daily lives. You may have noticed Amazon now uses AI to summarize customer reviews of its products; or heard that AI might be integrated into Google Maps soon. While AI undoubtedly affects the ways we interact with the internet in our personal lives, it also creates unique challenges and opportunities within the field of higher education.  

EDUCAUSE, a national organization for the advancement of technology in higher education, recently evaluated academia’s relationship to generative AI. A year after the media frenzy that marked early 2023, EDUCAUSE summarizes what you need to know about AI and its implications for institutions like Clark University moving forward.  

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Special thanks to Alexander Magid, Clark’s Information Privacy and Compliance Analyst and member of EDUCAUSE’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Advisory Committee, for recommending this article.