Sir Niall Ferguson: IS AI MAKING US DUMB? Comment: students please watch this. Your brain is still in formation until the age of 25. AI … is a lesson that we need explore by engaging with others like Sir Niall Ferguson, UATX. We do not want to throw out the baby with the bath water. For elders like me AI is unbelievable for building our cognitive reserve and engaging in past-times like genealogy and add to the big world wide web

Niall Ferguson: What Technophiles Should Learn from Medieval Universities

University of Austin (UATX)41.8K subscribers

20 Jun 2025

UATX co-founder and historian Niall Ferguson on university cheating, pseudo intelligence, and how to avoid another Dark Age. This lecture was hosted by the Austin Union on June 11, 2025. UATX students founded the Austin Union to promote respectful debate and critical thinking. 00:00:00 – Niall Ferguson’s lecture 00:38:20 – UATX student interviews Niall 01:10:05 – Q&A Links: Niall Ferguson’s lecture: https://uatx.substack.com/p/the-clois… Austin Union: https://www.austinunion.org Austin Union on X: https://x.com/austin_union University of Austin: https://www.uaustin.org University of Austin on X: https://x.com/uaustinorg

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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