00:00I ain't gonna trust AI no more. I ain't gonna trust AI no more.
00:05A battle over AI is brewing on college campuses.
00:09Universities are rushing to add chatbots to curriculums and students are pushing back.
00:14The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
00:26That backlash at the University of Central Florida is not an isolated incident.
00:31Silicon Valley is aggressively courting higher education.
00:34Tech giants like OpenAI and Anthropic are signing major enterprise deals with universities,
00:39as administrations look to prove their forward thinkers by adopting the latest AI tools.
00:44But some students argue this corporate push is cheapening the value of the education they pay
00:49tuition for. The fiercest resistance is coming from the arts, where students view AI-generated
00:54slop as an existential threat to their future careers. In Alaska, one student was arrested for
01:00ripping an AI-generated art exhibit off the wall and eating it in protest.
01:05Around the country, students are organizing Luddite clubs, holding marches, and demanding that
01:10universities invest in faculty, not software. The clubs take inspiration from 19th century
01:16British textile workers, who destroyed factory machinery to protect their livelihoods during
01:20the industrial revolution. As the spread of artificial intelligence accelerates, higher education has
01:26become the front line for a much larger question. Is infusing AI into academic curricula strengthening
01:32the future workforce, or just hollowing out the value of a college education?
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