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22 California Colleges Test AI Partnerships. Critics Complain It's Risky and Wasteful

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · 10/26/2025 21:34 EDT

California Colleges Test AI Partnerships. Critics Complain It's Risky and Wasteful

America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus "Cal State" system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be America's "first and largest AI-empowered" university" — and prepare students for "increasingly AI-driven" careers.


It's part of a trend of major universities inviting tech companies into "a much bigger role as education thought partners, AI

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