AI is consolidating corporate power in higher ed (opinion)

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AI is consolidating corporate power in higher education, Lindsay Weinberg writes.

Overearth/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Feb. 15, Google DeepMind employee Susan Zhang shared on X a sponsored LinkedIn message she received stating that the University of Michigan is licensing academic speech data and student papers for training and tuning large language models (LLMs). As Zhang’s post spread across social media, outrage over the monetization of student data quickly grew, prompting Michigan to issue an official statement . According to the university, the post had been sent out by “a new third party vendor that has since been asked to halt their work.” Furthermore, the university

AI is consolidating corporate power in higher ed (opinion)

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