Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI

This podcast draw listeners into an ongoing conversation inside one university as it faces the promises and pressures of artificial intelligence. Each episode brings voices from across Calvin University—students and seasoned faculty, media researchers and business thinkers, theologians, technologists, and campus leaders—who are all asking how AI is reshaping learning, creativity, and Christian intellectual life. Rather than offering final answers, the podcast opens a shared space for questions: What should guide our imaginations now? How do we teach, study, and lead well in this time?

Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI is a education podcast hosted by Calvin University, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Calvin University hosts Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI, a education show with 11 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  Wisdom in the Age of AI: A Conference Preview

  Aug 30, 202636 minS2

  "Being discerning isn't enough," David Smith suggests in this episode's preview of the October 8-10 AI-focused conference at Calvin University. Planners for four divisions of the conference--David Smith, Eric Araújo, Jason Stansbury, and Forrest Wakeman join Craig Mattson to give listeners a foretaste of Calvin-hosted conversation featuring prominent voices at the intersection of Christian thought and AI technology. In the second half of this episode, undergraduate student Nathan Holtrop talks with Professor Eric Araújo about their summer AI research, investigating what major LLMs know about two fourth-century Christian women: Macrina the Younger and Olympias the deaconess. It's an important conversation about the role of bias in the history of the church and in the development of AI models. Production work for this podcast was funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Rough cuts for the episodes were edited by Natasha Jayaputra. Final edits and all other production work for the podcast were done by Craig Mattson.

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  Episode #5

  Our Friend the Magic Robot

  Aug 30, 202636 minS2

  This episode lets you eavesdrop on liberal arts community in an age when a friendly chatbot promises to do everything for you in a fraction of the usual time. But not everything is well in age of friendly magical robots. A department chair mourns for something she calls the joy of procrastination, and a first-year student confesses to a mounting impatience. A production manager asks whether a machine that answers every question has quietly stepped into the place of the divine. Then the interim provost turns to the freshman and asks how he ought to be doing his job in an age of AI. Craig Mattson hosts this Calvin University conversation with Sophia Nelson, Kevin den Dulk, Rachel Hammond, and Kendrick Satterfield. Production work for this podcast was funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Rough cuts for the episodes were edited by Natasha Jayaputra. Final edits and all other production work for the podcast were done by Craig Mattson.

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  Episode #4

  The Struggle's the Point

  Aug 30, 202629 minS2

  The assignment takes an hour if you do it honestly. Or it takes five minutes if you let a bot do it for you. Facing choices like this all the time, a junior in computer science describes what living with AI is doing to him in a liberal arts community. He finds help in the writings of Simone Weil--and in the company of an assistant registrar, a psychologist of religion, and a professor who taught here thirty-three years. Craig Mattson hosts this episode of Prompted with Rachel Cush, Greg Goodfellow, Tyler Greenway, and Quentin Schultze. Production work for this podcast was funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Rough cuts for the episodes were edited by Natasha Jayaputra. Final edits and all other production work for the podcast were done by Craig Mattson.

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  Episode #3

  The Aliens Have Finally Come

  Aug 30, 202629 minS2

  Does AI represent an abuse of power that tempts our allegiance? Or is AI itself a power and a principality that threatens human existence? This episode features a Prompted 's widest disagreements yet. Making sense of the uncanny power of AI, the liberal arts student at the table ponders the demonic . Meanwhile, a professor of political science reaches instead for the terminology of the idolatrous . And the vice president in charge of technology at the university ponders Martin Buber's I-Thou relationship with machines. In this wide-ranging conversation from Buber to Fahrenheit 451 to aliens to companionship, Nolan Cowan, Tracy Kuperus, Hennie Schoon, and Brian Paige join Craig Mattson for a podcast about doing liberal arts community in an age of AI. Production work for this podcast was funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Rough cuts for the episodes were edited by Natasha Jayaputra. Final edits and all other production work for the podcast were done by Craig Mattson.

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  Episode #2

  Is AI a neutral tool?

  Aug 30, 202634 minS2

  Is AI just a tool? Is it a neutral instrument until somebody picks it up and does something good or bad with it? A pre-med senior says yes. A geographer, reaching for Postman and Ellul, says no. Wait, says a theological librarian,. there might actually be an element of neutrality. But there's also an enormous responsibility. Whether it's a neutral tool or a biased platform, AI feels like a pervasive vapor that enters everything in liberal arts community. Which is why one guest says it makes her want to touch dirt. For listeners concerned about ecological questions and AI and for people wondering what the sacraments have to do with large language models and for anyone wondering about how one university is making sense of an age of AI, this podcast episode is a great way to spend thirty minutes. Host Craig Mattson is joined by Calvin University colleagues Sam Ha, Cassie Hagedorn, Karena Moleakunnel, and Mark Bjelland. Production work for this podcast was funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship. Rough cuts for the episodes were edited by Natasha Jayaputra. Final edits and all other production work for the podcast were done by Craig Mattson.

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