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From one theology & ethics graduate to another, thanks for sharing!!

Great!

Justin Wright Emotional intelligence is what helps people work better together and lead with more understanding.

Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez I completely agree with your assessment of the pedagogical challenge. In fact my original post is not about coming up with solutions. Is about university machines letting us teachers try them. I am just an hobbist, we have colleagues in the pedagogy department whose life has been dedicated to pedagogy that can help way better than me. I am sure they have a bunch of cool approaches to try. The real challenge is the resistance to change and the lack of willingness/resources/risk tollerance to support change. We need changes in procedures that have been used for more than a decade and that are at the basis of existing business models. For example, I have the hunch that the remote assessment enabled a lot of commodification, that brought in lots of money in fields that traditionally had no money. It allowed to cut staff, and to rely less on expert staff, while expanding the number of students. The explosion of masters for foreign students that can barely understand English, was partially enabled by the take home assessment model. Those students would not survive a single oral, but without those students many of us will not have jobs.

Clara Hawking Clara, thank you for this post. Indeed, the flood of overnight verdicts is itself a case study in what the document warns against: the social media reflex of converting complexity into immediate output. Your point on schools as civilisational institutions rather than labour-market pipelines is one of the strongest threads. Here is what struck me on a first read. Leo XIV is unusually direct about political economy. The document names private transnational power directly & is concrete on AI's supply chain. This is closer to Dr. Cecilia Rikap's analysis of monopoly capitalism than I expected from Rome. Where I will want to read more slowly is the treatment of #posthumanism, which collapses serious critical scholarship into Silicon Valley enhancement ideology. And the anthropocentric centre of gravity narrows the planetary opening that #LaudatoSi' began. A comparison of the two papal documents could be very telling. Looking forward to your deeper reading. Aida Ponce Del Castillo Carissa Véliz Vanessa Andreotti

For the working class the new area of improvement (career path in 2027?) probably; how many AI agents can you manage effectively and efficiently, while manage other humans, who probably manage some AI agents their capacity?

Only half the picture. "who decides" sounds good in town hall but try asking a baker in Smallville. He's elbow deep in dough at 5am, phone buzzing with a Amazon order he still copies into Excel by hand. Nobody invited him to the table. He didn't lose out because of some boardroom power grab. He lost out because the tool landed in his inbox, he clicked around for 20 minutes, got frustrated, and closed the tab. That's an adoption problem. A guy with flour on his hands and no one showing him which button to press.

Emotional intelligence also shows up in how well we notice our own internal signals before stress starts driving the conversation.Justin Wright

AI isn’t replacing humans, it’s exposing where human + AI collaboration works better than AI alone. Cost, context, and execution still matter more than hype. 🚀

His Holiness doesn't need to be on LinkedIn, he already has the world's largest number of followers! 😊

Seriously, this is why I come here. It’s the real analysis. I really have not seen an more excellent take on this.

Hooking up is a bad choice of words in today’s context.

Innocent Kasiyano (PhD) yes most of us are thinking in that direction. Written exams are a no brainer, and we are switching back. But it has impacts on curriculum, some very fun classes in which we teach how to do primary research will be harder to do (apart if those classes accept the use of AI, this is what I experimented in one of mine advanced classes this semester), and for the dissertation the exam is an oral and the UK sector has moved away from oral due to EDI concerns. Certain personalities over/under perform systematically in orals ceteris paribus. Maybe we can use new oral procedures, or special considerations procedures, to deal with those concerns, but some smart colleagues do not think so. We could also accept that the dissertation will be AI augmented and we teach how to do it properly. But we will need to restrict the domain on only the topics the department has strong expertise on. Lots of interesting trade-offs. Teaching and grading used to be non challenging activities, now figuring out this conundrum is one of the most fascinating puzzles out there.

Exams should be 100% written. What are universities playing at

Pascal BORNET The real inflection point is governance of incentives. AI is already shaping distribution of value, but accountability frameworks are still lagging behind capability growth.

Clara Hawking / loving ❤️ your work!

Spent years thinking EQ was about managing other people's emotions well. Turns out it starts much earlier than that. You can't regulate what you don't recognize. The self-awareness piece isn't the soft part of the list, it's the foundation everything else is built on. Get that wrong and the empathy and the conflict resolution are just techniques with nothing underneath them.

This breakdown is excellent, Luís. What I see in real systems is that the “body” only works when each layer is treated as a first‑class component, not an afterthought. Most teams invest heavily in the brain (LLM) and the hands (agents), but the nervous system (MCP) is where reliability, governance, and real‑world integration actually live. LLMs think. RAG grounds. Agents act. MCP keeps the whole organism alive. Great analogy!

Very relevant perspective — AI creates the most value when it augments skilled people, not when it’s treated as a blanket replacement strategy.

I've at the pointy end of thesis season TBH the bland prose is getting to me. Looking forward to what happens next. And I hope students are able to retain the knowledge they are supposedly obtaining through writing a thesis.