AI and robots in Higher Education: Eighteen design fictions

Eighteen design fictions that imagine the application of AI and robots to Higher Education (HE).<br> Based on a wide-ranging literature review, the fictions instantiate the possibilities and controversies around AI and robots as applied in the university context, including teaching, administration and research. <br>The methods used to design an earlier version of the fictions are described in the paper "The development of a collection of design fictions about Artificial Intelligence and robots in Higher Education" (https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/s2jc8) <br>Design fictions create a speculative space in which to raise questions about whether a particular technology is desirable, the socio-cultural assumptions built into technologies, the potential for different technologies to make different worlds, our relation to technology in general, indeed our role in making the future happen in general. <br>They can be used in research or teaching to elicit opinions about the future application of AI and robots to HE. <br>The project was funded by Society of Research into Higher Education - Research Scoping Award -SA1906. As such the fictions are the property of SRHE and deposited here by permission.<br> The research was approved by the University of Sheffield, Information School under ethics application 032657<br>My thanks to Dave Cameron, Alessandro Checco, Tim Herrick and Maria Mawson for comments on an earlier version which fed into the current collection. <br>