Nick McIntosh speaking at ACCA Hanoi 2024
Learning Futurist · Ho Chi Minh City · Asia-Pacific

Not a university
talking to itself.

Designing the architecture for how intelligence actually moves through a complex organisation — from the inside.

01 Writing
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AI and the Future of HE · 4 May 2026

Agents running amok, the transparency collapse, and glasses in the exam hall

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AI and the Future of HE · 20 Apr 2026

The broken ladder, Stanford's data, and who's measuring what

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AI and the Future of HE · 13 Apr 2026

36,000 experiments, collective deskilling, and Sal Khan's receipts

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AI and the Future of HE · 6 Apr 2026

Anthropic's source code, agents are scheming, and McLuhan was right about Claude

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Times Higher Education · Dec 2025

While we worry about plagiarism, AI coaches suicide — here’s how to respond

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LSE Impact Blog · Jul 2025

What we’ve been missing while chasing AI

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Students across the institution where the research lives

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I'm not writing about this from the outside. For three years I've been building the governance infrastructure that helps a 115,000-person university across three continents turn AI disruption into institutional advantage — not training people to use tools, but designing the architecture for how intelligence actually moves through a complex organisation.

The uncomfortable truth is that universities are called learning institutions, but almost none of them actually learn as institutions. AI has made that gap not just visible but dangerous. Based in Vietnam, connected to the Asia-Pacific, Europe and beyond — I'm building the connective tissue that closes it.

02 Podcast
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Adjunct Intelligence.
Deep dives and interviews on AI in learning and teaching. Guests include Sean McMinn (HKUST) and Danny Liu (University of Sydney).
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Nobel Prize Dialogue — Ho Chi Minh City
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PIE Live Asia Pacific — Gold Coast
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Governor General of Australia — RMIT Vietnam
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2024
ACCA — Main stage, Hanoi
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