The AI Inflection Point | Ep 1 — The diagnosis: The model is broken, and AI makes it urgent

Episode 1 of The AI Inflection Point — our six-part series recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney. This first episode sets the diagnosis: universities were designed for a student who no longer exists. Professor KC Chua, President of Singapore Institute of Technology, and Pierpaolo Limone, Rector of Pegaso University in Rome, answer the same question from opposite sides of the world: for what kind of student was the university actually built — and is that still the student in front of us today? AI didn’t create the problem. It just made it impossible to ignore