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Snake Oil or Substance: Jasmine Solomon on Spotting AI Hype in Higher Ed
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Host Alex Green sat down with Jasmine Solomon, Senior Associate Director of Systems Operations at New York University, where she leads the systems supporting more than 150,000 applicants each year. Jasmine also founded the Slate AI User Group and helps shape national conversations around AI literacy and responsible adoption in higher education.
A new AI feature or upgrade lands in your inbox at least once a month, and plenty of it is snake oil. This episode skips the hype and gets practical. Jasmine shares how she decides which announcements deserve her attention, the red flag that separates fluff from substance, and why she favors purpose built tools that plug into the tech stack she already runs.
Listeners will walk away with:
- A simple test for evaluating new AI features before they reach your team
- The eager intern mindset for getting past AI that just agrees with you
- A fresh chat technique that gets AI to pick apart its own output
- The AI skills every higher education professional should build now
Want to connect with Jasmine? Find her on LinkedIn and on her HEUG member profile.
Have an AI question or a hot take? Leave a voicemail for next season's Ask the Show segment, or keep the conversation going in the HEUG AI Innovators Network.
