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Being Good Ancestors Starts Right Now

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau

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17 Sept 2025
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26 June 2026, 08:00 am

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<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiW0FVX3lxTE1jUkNBYkQwYjdnUkJaanZqZFUyZGdoOElXOUR4OFVwYkkwOWgzQWhndVFydWViZlF2SklRVVVpdmE3emU3amkxc0FBc3JWZHozOXhHX24zTE5jYnM?oc=5" target="_blank">Being good ancestors starts right now</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">blogs.illinois.edu</font>

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Chancellor Charles Isbell Jr. explores the long-term societal obligations of higher education institutions to serve as a public good during a period of rapid technological shift. While the discourse centers on ethics and generational responsibility, it touches on the necessity of preparing for transformative technologies like AI that fundamentally reshape human capabilities. The focus remains on systemic institutional evolution rather than specific technical AI safety benchmarks or catastrophic risk mitigation strategies. This piece serves as a philosophical framework for governance but lacks direct application to frontier AI safety policy.

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Being good ancestors starts right now Sep 17, 2025 12:30 pm by News BureauIllinois in the News Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Chancellor Charles Isbell Jr. on higher education as a public good. Share on Facebook Tweet Email