How one consultant advised a 25k-student university on AI strategy
aniketapanjwani · x · 2026-09-23
- A workshop for Southern Denmark University (25k+ students) leadership on integrating AI.
- Survey showed most leaders had barely used AI beyond Copilot; top-down strategies from low-experience leadership are dangerous. Academic AI diffusion is bottom-up: trusted researchers try tools, share, and others follow.
- Recommendations: let faculty buy Claude/ChatGPT subscriptions with their own research funds frictionlessly; don't spend a penny on university-wide Gemini/Copilot licenses; give AI-heavy researchers low-effort "AI office hours" to replace some service duties.
- Risk framing: policies stall on GDPR/data security while ignoring the risk of inaction — attendees ran an "AI 2031" scenario of bad outcomes.
- Practical tips: senior faculty should opt out of training data in Codex/Claude Code, hook tools to email + AI notetaker, and weigh the real cost of boycotting ChatGPT/X over personal distaste for Altman/Musk.
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