Artificial Intelligence Is Poised to Expand in Higher Education

"Are you replacing me with a robot?" Bryan Fendley, an artificial intelligence expert and the director of instructional technology and web services at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, has heard this line for years. "Faculty members are worried they're going to be traded in for a computer or the internet," he says. Seventy-three percent of Americans believe AI will eliminate more jobs than it will create, according to a poll by Gallup and Northeastern University. Still, 74 percent say AI will have a positive effect on their lives.