My Robot Teacher
My Robot Teacher is a podcast examining the impact of generative AI on higher education, hosted by CSU professors Taiyo Inoue and Sarah Senk. It explores how faculty responded to ChatGPT's rollout across the California State University system, from panic to adoption. The show covers resistance, habituation, and adaptation in real classrooms, and is produced by editaudio with sponsorship from the California Learning Lab.
Episodes
Ep 20 - The AI Access Gap: San Diego’s Equitable AI Alliance
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 “Equi
Ep19 - The Math of Thinking Together — with David Spivak
Applied category theorist and Topos Institute co-founder David Spivak joins Sarah and Taiyo to explore the mathematics of thinking together. They begin with a question that runs through the episode: when does a resemblance between two fields become useful enough to carry knowledge from one into the other? From epidemics and information to the institutional conditions for adopting AI, they explore
Ep18 - What Should Students Still Struggle Through? OpenAI’s Leah Belsky on AI, Agency, and Education’s Future
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 leads education at OpenAI, joins My Robot Teacher to talk about one of the hardest questions facing educators in the age of AI: where to draw the line between productive friction and work that technology can usefully remove. Drawing on her work at OpenAI, her experience
Ep17 - Why UC San Diego Runs Its Own AI: Chancellor Pradeep Khosla on Higher Education’s Future
UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla joins My Robot Teacher to explain why large public universities need to move faster on AI, and why “mandated coordination” may be the wrong way to get there.An internationally renowned electrical and computer engineer and co-chair of the University of California’s AI Steering Committee, Khosla has pushed one of the world’s leading public research universities
Ep16 - Is Learning to Code Still Worth It? John DeNero on Computational Thinking in the Age of AI
AI can write code, and it writes it well. So what remains worth teaching? UC Berkeley computer scientist John DeNero joins Sarah and Taiyo to make the case for computational thinking — abstraction, decomposition, and the intuition that tells you when an output is wrong — as general education rather than vocational training. Along the way: why programmers get more out of AI coding tools than non-pr
Ep15 - How Can Higher Education Keep Up With AI? C. Edward Watson on Curriculum Reform
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 u
Ep14 - Why Students Trust ChatGPT: Dr. Julie Carpenter on AI Literacy, Attachment, and Human Learning
When universities adopt AI at scale, do students learn to treat tools like ChatGPT as authoritative and trustworthy? Dr. Julie Carpenter joins Sarah and Taiyo to unpack AI in education through a sociotechnical lens and ask whether AI literacy can keep up with systems that invite our trust, emotional disclosure, and attachment.
Ep13 - How to Talk About AI in Higher Education: April Lawson on Insight Debate & Dialogue
What are faculty and students actually saying about AI when they are given a structured space to speak honestly? In this episode of My Robot Teacher, Sarah and Taiyo talk with April Lawson, co-founder of Insight Debate & Dialogue, about what she has learned from facilitating structured conversations about AI across colleges and universities. Her work brings faculty, students, staff, and admini
Ep12 - Querying the Collective Mind - CrowdSmart Co-Founder Kim Polese on Collective Intelligence
How can AI summon the wisdom of the crowd without the stupidity of the mob? In Episode 12 of My Robot Teacher, Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue talk with Kim Polese—co-founder of CrowdSmartAI and Common Good AI—about collective intelligence, deliberative tech, and a different vision of AI: not as a machine for generating answers, but as a facilitator that helps groups think better together. From enterpr
Ep11 - The Opposite of AI Slop: AI, Journalism, and Government Transparency
What does AI have to do with democracy? More than most people realize. In this episode — recorded on My Robot Teacher's one-year anniversary — we're joined by Kim Bisheff (Journalism, Cal Poly SLO) and Emmy-award winning professor Foaad Khosmood (Computer Engineering, Cal Poly SLO), the team behind the Digital Democracy Project, an AI-powered tool that makes state legislative proceedings searchabl
Ep10 - Teaching without a Script: Improv Pedagogy in the Probabilistic Classroom
What does improv have to do with teaching in the age of AI? More than you might think. In this episode, we’re joined by Julie Simons (Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz) and Pedro Morales (Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz) to talk about improv not as performance, but as pedagogy - and, more broadly, a philosophy of classroom life.In this episode:Why active learning may be a stronger response to AI than
Ep09 - Resilience Over Right Answers: Rethinking Science Education in the Age of AI (with Biophysicist Jon Sack, UC Davis)
Science education after ChatGPT: what happens when students can outsource the thinking, and still turn in something that looks right? In this episode of My Robot Teacher, CSU professors Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue talk with UC Davis biophysicist Jon Sack about AI literacy, scientific thinking, and how LLMs are reshaping both the classroom and the day-to-day reality of research.If the most available
Ep08 - How to Teach AI (Not Just Use It) - with UC Berkeley’s Eric Van Dusen
What would it look like to teach AI literacy the way UC Berkeley teaches data science? hands-on, interdisciplinary, and open? In this episode of My Robot Teacher, Sarah and Taiyo talk with Eric Van Dusen from Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society about how the wildly successful Data 8: Foundations of Data Science course became a scalable model for modern computing education. E
Ep07 - Shaping the AI Narrative in Higher Education | Sci-Fi, ChatGPT & the Stories in Our Heads
AI in higher education, ChatGPT on campus, and Hollywood sci-fi all collide in this conversation with Jason Goldman.When our students say they’re afraid to use their CSU-issued ChatGPT EDU account because it might be a sting operation, what stories about technology are already living in their heads?In this episode of My Robot Teacher, Sarah and Taiyo sit down with Jason Goldman – co-host of the fi
Ep06 - Algorithms Aren’t Neutral: Safiya Noble on AI, Bias, and Building Public‑Interest Technology
Generative AI is reshaping classrooms and campuses, but with whose values, and at what cost? In this episode, Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression and founder of the UCLA Center on Resilience and Digital Justice, joins Sarah and Taiyo to unpack why “neutral” AI isn’t neutral, why interdisciplinarity is hard but essential, and what a public‑interest technology ecosystem in higher
Ep05 - Lost in Translation: Testing the Limits of AI Understanding
In this episode, we talk with Madison Van Doren (AI Research & Strategy Manager at Appen) about the limits of AI translation, what AI safety practices like red-teaming reveal about model guardrails, and why humans in the loop remain essential. Madison explains adversarial prompting, how different large language models reflect the norms and incentives of their builders, and why common translati
Ep04 - A New Hope [for AI in College Writing]
How do we teach writing in the age of ChatGPT? On My Robot Teacher, hosts Taiyo Inoue and Sarah Senk talk with Carl Whithaus (Professor of Writing & Rhetoric; Director, University Writing Program, UC Davis) and Aparna Sinha (Associate Professor of Composition & Rhetoric, Cal Poly Maritime) about how AI is reshaping the composition classroom, and how educators can use LLMs to support critic
Ep03 - The End of Literacy As We Know It - How ChatGPT Exposed What's Broken in Education
What happens when AI forces us to confront what's broken about education? In this eye-opening conversation, Linguistics professor Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) and English & Ethnic Studies professor Chesa Caparas (De Anza College) join Sarah and Taiyo, and argue that the panic over student "cheating" with ChatGPT is missing the real crisis.Spoiler alert: The problem isn't that students are usin
Ep02 - Higher Education in the Age of AI: Rethinking Teaching and Learning with ChatGPT
What does AI mean for how we teach and learn? In this episode of My Robot Teacher, we explore how ChatGPT is reshaping higher education.In this episode of My Robot Teacher, co-hosts Taiyo Inoue and Sarah Senk share real stories and critical reflections on using ChatGPT and other large language models in higher education.What becomes newly possible - and newly questionable - when thinking itself is
Ep01 - Resistance is Futile - and Brief
What happens when ChatGPT crashes into the classroom?In this premiere episode of My Robot Teacher, Cal State University (CSU) professors Taiyo Inoue and Sarah Senk explore how faculty across public universities are reacting to the rise of generative AI in education. From panic to pedagogical adaptation, we dig into what resistance to AI really looks like - and why it often gives way to something s
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Faculty insiders Sarah Senk and Taiyo Inoue unpack how generative AI is reshaping higher ed policy, pedagogy, and ethics - without the jargon. Follow for sharp insight and dry wit.Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, AI, ChatGPT, tech, Waymo, science and technology, AI and Humanity, Education, HigherEd, Future Of Learning, Sarah Senk, Taiyo Inoue, editaudio, MLOps, Machine Learning, Generative AI, A
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