{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Intelligence for GOOD","title":"Responsible AI, Student Protection, and the Future of Higher Education: Aaron Ament Co-Founder & President of Student Defense","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1540,"description":"In this episode of Intelligence for GOOD, Grant speaks with Aaron Ament, cofounder and president of Student Defense, about how artificial intelligence is changing higher education.\nStudent Defense is a nonprofit organization that uses litigation, advocacy, and policy development to protect students and ensure college remains a pathway to economic mobility.\nAaron discusses the organization’s Shape AI initiative, which stands for Safeguarding Higher Education Through AI Practices and Ethics. The initiative brings together students, faculty members, college administrators, policy experts, and AI leaders to create practical guidance for responsible AI adoption.\nThe conversation explores how colleges are already using AI in admissions, recruitment, grading, academic advising, student support, and workforce preparation. Aaron explains why university governance policies have not kept pace with adoption and why institutions need stronger standards for transparency, data protection, human oversight, and accountability.\nGrant and Aaron also examine the positive potential of AI, including personalized learning, expanded tutoring, earlier identification of students who need support, and better access to benefits and campus resources.\nThey discuss the risk of creating a new affordability divide between students who can access premium AI tools and those who cannot, as well as the responsibility universities have to prepare graduates for a rapidly changing job market.\nTopics discussedWhy Student Defense was foundedThe risks students faced from predatory for profit collegesWhy Student Defense launched the Shape AI initiativeHow AI is being used across the college experienceThe lack of formal AI governance policies at many universitiesHuman accountability in admissions and other major decisionsTransparency and disclosure when AI affects studentsProtecting student data from third party technology vendorsPersonalized learning and AI powered tutoringUsing data to identify students...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4sRu2lSLxzwygvYYFjELGwd38DkyMbLQBz8-M8woU4Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YTEz/YTBlMzQ2MTk3MTVl/MjIwNmExZGNkZTJh/ODlhMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}