A poster held at St. Thomas University, created by AI. (Jennifer William/AQ) Walk past the bulletin boards at St. Thomas University (STU) and you’ll find flyers for gigs, art shows and local bands. Some of them, made by a machine instead of a hand. For a school built on fine arts, humanities and critical thinking, for some students that’s not sitting well. “I find it kind of contradictory,” said Gabriel Bartlett, a history major with a minor in fine arts and anthropology. “[

A post on Moltbook, an online network for AI agents, shares a message about human creators and artificial intelligence. The site launched Jan. 28 and is designed primarily for interactions between AI bots. (Brianna Lyttle/AQ) As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly abundant in everyday life, an online network specifically made for bots to interact with each other has officially launched. Moltbook, created by Octane AI, is intended for agentic AI to connect with e

Matt Dinan, a Great Books professor at St. Thomas University, presents a lecture on artificial intelligence and the future of liberal arts education as part of the STU Public Lecture Series on Jan. 14. (Brianna Lyttle/The AQ) With users increasingly leaning into AI for help and others frantically running in the opposite direction, the question remains: how will the future of higher education be implicated for St. Thomas University? This is the question that Matt Dinan, grea