- May 10, 2026
- AI, Generative AI, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Artificial intelligence is altering mental health care at an extraordinary rate. The evidence to date suggests a dual reality: genuine opportunities to expand access and improve outcomes coexist with serious risks of bias, privacy breaches, cognitive decline, and patient harm. Whether AI ultimately serves as a complement to human expertise or a substitute—and whether its […]
The Intimacy of the Algorithm: Social Consequences of AI in the Near Future
- April 21, 2026
- AI, Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence, Essay, Humanism, Social Ethics, Technology
As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into the economic and social mainstream over the next 3–7 years, its benefits are widely celebrated. However, three significant negative social consequences are likely to emerge: the erosion of meaningful human agency in labor, the collapse of shared digital truth, and the atrophy of critical social skills. In this essay […]
Ten Challenges and Emerging Future Trends in Higher Education
- January 5, 2026
- AI, AW, Colleges, Educación Superior, Education, Future Trends, Higher Education, Universities
The first part of this article involves our view of the ten significant quality challenges affecting universities and colleges presently. The second part is an essential list (English-Spanish) of trends and predictive lines in higher education for 2026 and beyond, based on my forthcoming book, “Past and Future Social Trends,” scheduled for release next year. […]
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
- January 2, 2026
- AI, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Ética, Future, Higher Education, Neurotechnology, Sciences, Uncertainty
Generative AI will be one of the most significant technological developments for bringing education to a lifelong learning process. But humans with the hands and minds in artificial intelligence will have a major and transcendent task to accomplish, which is first to put the ethical and aesthetic obligations with humankind. A revolution of knowledge that […]
Kerry Kennedy: The power of the word, the compassion and the law
- November 4, 2025
- Education, Ethics, Higher Education, Human Rights Law Award, Social Justice, Social Philosophy
Kerry Kennedy inspires us not to remain silent, to use our voices and our platforms, no matter how big or small, to act and improve the lot of others. Thus, we will have fulfilled our conscience and what the human values of education mean in the force of the word compassion, and the law. But […]
Strategic Planning and Utopian Thinking for Change
- September 1, 2025
- Business, Development, Economics, Education, Essay, Philosophy, Planning, Social Philosophy, Sociology
The purely expansionist ‘realistic’ strategic planning model typifies today’s society and causes an anticlimax in planning, turning it into a simple matter of forecasting, systematic organization, and the subordination of desirable human goals to foreseeable economic development. Does strategic planning make all the right moves? Utopian thinking becomes a way of testing the boundaries of […]
A Comprehensive Checklist for AI Applications to University Management
- August 25, 2025
- Academic Administration, AI, Education, Higher Education, University Management
AI offers numerous benefits to education. Universities must address challenges such as data privacy, ethical considerations, and the costs of implementation. These are crucial aspects that must be carefully managed to ensure the successful and responsible integration of AI in university management. This is a basic checklist covering AI applications to administrative and academic management and […]
Can We Transfer Science Between Cultures?
- June 30, 2025
- Culture, Education, Philosopy of Science, Research Methodology, Sciences, Technology, Technology Transfer
Can we transfer science from one country to another or from one culture to another culture? Is a scientific fact different in the United States and China? Who owns science? Are we confusing science with technology? Science does not come into existence by spontaneous generation. Scientific knowledge is an inheritance from the past and the […]
Shared University Governance: Authoritarianism or Authority
- October 1, 2024
- Accountability, Education, Governance, Higher Education, HigherEd Management, University Policy
A university culture is centered on the student, not the faculty or administration. The authority of governing is gained through levels of participation and cooperation in decision-making. The picture above shows the signature ceremony of the Magna Charta Universitatum, signed in Piazza Maggiore at Bologna on September 18, 1988, by 388 Rectors of major universities […]
Learning for Today and Beyond Tomorrow
- August 13, 2024
- AI, Digital Education, EdTech, Educational Philosophy, Innovation, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Psychology
We are at the very early stage of a significant learning revolution. AI is just the beginning of it, and we are responsible for giving future generations a much better world than what we have today. However, technology artifacts such as AI are only instrumental toys for the human playground. Our human brain and our […]