What Kind of World Do We Want to Live in?

Episode 4 of Prompted: Liberal Arts in the Age of AI brings together a rich variety of perspectives: ESL instructor Sara Vander Bie, graphic design professor Christopher Fox, chaplain Mary Hulst, and dean Kyle Small. Each one works daily with students who cross cultural, linguistic, or generational boundaries—and each one is wrestling with what AI means for the life we wish for and the world we seek.Together, they explore how AI tools both connect and complicate relationships among learners who bring different life experiences, worldviews, and communication practices into the classroom. What changes when a first‑generation student, an international student, and a returning adult learner all use AI in distinct ways? How does design education shift when visual cultures collide? What spiritual, relational, and ethical questions surface when technology mediates how we listen to one another?This conversation takes seriously the idea that the liberal arts can help us not just use AI, but live with one another while using it. It’s a hopeful, grounded look at how intercultural and intergenerational wisdom might guide us toward forms of learning that honor the full complexity of human community.The rough cut for this podcast was edited by Riley Johnston, produced by Craig Mattson and funded by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship.