AI and robots in Higher Education: Eight design fictions

Eight 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 this 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><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><br>They can be used in research or teaching to elicit opinions about the future application of AI and robots to HE.<br>Fiction 1: AIDan, the teaching assistantFiction 2: FootbotballFiction 3: CriticalBot in conversationFiction 4: The intelligent campus appFiction 5: Research Management Suite TMFiction 6: Verbatim minutes of University AI project steering committee: AI implementation phase 3Fiction 7: DashboardsFiction 8: Minnie, the AI admin assistant<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