What are we even doing?

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 week, we try to put out an episode with four 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 a stranger) who knows something we don’t. We’re not selling AI. We’re not shorting AI. We use it, we teach next to it, and most days we’re confused about it. If that sounds like your life too, you’re in the right place. The opinions expressed represent our thinking at the time of recording and do not represent the views of our employer. Recorded live in Mac’s Bar in beautiful Lansing, MI. We don’t control the music, don’t sue please.