Dr. Spencer Striker : Cognitive Debt, AI Slop & The Future of Creative Education

Is #AI making us cognitively lazy, orjust outsourcing the boring parts?

In this episode of #WISEOnAir, Sam Meekings talks withDr. Spencer Striker, Professor of Digital Media Design at @NorthwesternUniversity in Qatar, about AI's role in education. They cover #cognitivedebt, the MIT study behind it, and how leaning on AI for hard thinking can leavestudents with little real work to show. The talk also touches on rethinking assessment, the rise of AI slop, and why taste and originality matter more than ever, before landing on the bigger question: what is higher education reallyfor, and how do we protect that as the tools around us keep changing?