Henry Scott studies at the London Interdisciplinary School (lis.ac.uk), pursuing a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods, and will be part of the school's third graduating class. Dyslexic since childhood, he turned early to AI dictation tools to help articulate his thinking — a habit he credits with sharpening his own unassisted writing over time. At LIS he took an AI and Ethics module taught by legal scholar Emma Rengers, wrote a four-page AI declaration for a capstone project he partly "vibe-coded," and built a custom AI assistant — nicknamed Clover — to manage his calendar and track his mood and habits.

Felix Audebert is a first-year student at Forward College (forward-college.eu), the European university where students spend one year each in Lisbon, Paris, and Berlin. He is pursuing a double bachelor's in Politics & International Relations and Business & Leadership. Felix uses AI almost daily and has access to Forward College's AI hub, which includes a tool that flags how much of a student's work risks tipping into cognitive offloading. He recently used AI to help a Portuguese impact-measurement startup narrow down interview targets for a client project.

In this episode, Henry and Felix talk with Svenia Busson about:

  • Using AI as an assistant rather than letting it think for you
  • The line between cognitive offloading and freeing up mental bandwidth
  • Why both still write by hand — and the NTNU brain-connectivity research (Frontiers in Psychology) behind it
  • How Forward College and LIS each handle AI in the classroom, from AI hubs to mandatory declarations
  • The honesty gap — why students under-report AI use, and tools like Consensus that can confirm your own bias back to you
  • Rethinking assessment in the AI era, from written declarations to oral exams ("vivas")
  • The EU AI Act (high-level summary), algorithmic bias in immigration and parole systems, and what it means for the workforce they're entering
  • Emotional offloading — AI companionship, naming your assistant, and where human connection still wins


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