What are we even doing?

education · EN

What Are We Even Doing is a podcast about AI from the people who have to deal with it on a Tuesday morning. We’re Danny Caballero and Devin Silvia, researchers and educators at Michigan State University. We teach computing to scientists and engineers. We’ve been doing it for over a decade. And like a lot of educators, we spend most of our time these days trying to figure out what AI is actually doing to our classrooms, our research, and our students’ lives. Every two weeks, we try to put out an episode with different parts: • The AI education news. What happened in the last two weeks, and what the discourse is missing. • A cool thing someone did. Because we don’t want to be the show that’s just mad about everything. • Hype Train Check. One specific AI claim, picked apart in five minutes. • An interview. A conversation with someone (usually a colleague, sometimes