It's up to higher education to keep AI in check (opinion) Inside Higher Ed

The ubiquity of mobile computing -- and rise of algorithms that determine what we watch, hear and experience -- is raising frequent, and perhaps well-founded, concerns about the disintermediation of humans from decision making. Chat bots respond to our most obscure queries in nanoseconds. Algorithms help us pick the perfect restaurant, partner or job candidate. Artificial intelligence, in particular, conjures fears of a dystopian future where Elon Musk's "demons" come for more than just our jobs. And on college campuses, worthy questions are being asked about the incongruity between higher education's mission and the rise of analytics that sort and filter students or faculty in ways that undermine higher education's promise -- and mission.