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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college. You may not know that name, but in the tech world, he’s now a big deal.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” Will you release a white paper, or tools? AI hallucinations aside, we're losing that race pretty quickly. It's written by three economists out of the University of Toronto. We think we'll have research and tools.

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Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a New Kind of College?

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A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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