{"id":203888,"date":"2026-04-20T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-than-ever-can-ai-help\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:10:30","slug":"college-students-are-more-polarized-than-ever-can-ai-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-than-ever-can-ai-help\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students Are More Polarized Than Ever. Can AI Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-ever\">College Students Are More Polarized Than Ever. Can AI Help?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-ever\">https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 03:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.insidehighered.com\">www.insidehighered.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Higher education institutions are utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance various aspects of campus life beyond teaching and learning, including admissions, alumni networks, fundraising, and advising.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Due to political polarization that heightened during the Israel-Hamas war, there has been a significant rise in discomfort among college students sharing their political views on campus, rising from 13% to 33% between 2015 and 2024.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>To address campus divisions, colleges are increasingly working with organizations that promote civil dialogue, like Braver Angels, BridgeUSA, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the Constructive Dialogue Institute (CDI).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>CDI has developed an AI-enabled component for its Perspectives learning program that aims to teach students constructive dialogue skills through AI coaching and feedback, providing a platform for safe and realistic practice scenarios.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The potential of AI as a constructive dialogue tool is debated, with CDI&#8217;s research suggesting the most benefits come from a constrained and pedagogically focused AI coach, while using AI as a mediator or adversary carries inherent risks, such as making false equivalencies and misrepresentations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Students Are More Polarized Than Ever. Can AI Help? https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/04\/20\/college-students-are-more-polarized-ever Publish Date: 2026-04-20 03:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/2026-04\/Overloading_robot_ai_smoke.jpg?itok=tpDzDsuD","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203890,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203888\/revisions\/203890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}