person

Clay Shirky

NYU emeritus; 'Here Comes Everybody', 'Cognitive Surplus'

NYU vice provost emeritus; long-time writer on social media and digital tools. Recent work focuses on AI's effects on universities and on knowledge work.

current Vice Provost Emeritus, Educational Technologies, NYU

@cshirky

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstmixed

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argues universities have no plan for AI's effect on student writing and assessment; current institutional inertia means policy will be set by individual instructors making contradictory choices.

Higher education has not yet absorbed the fact that the writing it requires of students no longer requires the students. The institutional response is being made one syllabus at a time, with no coordination.

¶ articleClay Shirky on AI in higher education· NYU Provost's Office· 2024· faithful paraphrase

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Adam Grant
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Wharton organizational psychologist
Anna Lauren Hoffmann
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UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist
Anton Korinek
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UVA economist; AI and inequality
Brian Merchant
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Tech writer; 'Blood in the Machine' author
Cynthia Breazeal
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MIT Media Lab; social robotics; founder Jibo
Daniel Susskind
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Oxford / King's College London; AI and work economist

Record last updated 2026-04-25.