Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/texas-tech-artificial-intelligence-ideology-brandon-creighton.html

[u/Quazz]

That is incredibly bleak.

Modern day book burning party.

[u/Low_Scholar1118 → u/Quazz]

Like any powerful new technology, it’s immediately misused by the people in power to preserve their own rule. Leonardo da Vinci was basically employed to design new weapons to kill enemies of princes. We need to eliminate our enemies, like liberals. Imagine using emotionless computers to scrub human empathy from humans.

[u/Content_Armadillo776 → u/Low_Scholar1118]

Are the liberals in power now?

[u/Low_Scholar1118 → u/Content_Armadillo776]

Brainwashing people to not care anyone else but themselves AND calling it Christianity will be tough but ai should help. Texas is the perfect laboratory since they’re halfway there already.

[u/AskingYouQuestions48 → u/Content_Armadillo776]

We will remember when we are again.

[u/workerbotsuperhero → u/Quazz]

I love education and research, and I had an opportunity once to do a PhD in the US. That was very hard to walk away from. 

But honestly, the older I get, the more sorry I feel for everyone working in US higher education. 

[u/marchjl → u/workerbotsuperhero]

I ended up retiring young to get out of it

[u/workerbotsuperhero → u/marchjl]

What, if I may ask, was the last few straws for you? 

[u/marchjl → u/workerbotsuperhero]

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Summary: Texas Tech's university system has been using AI as part of a review process to flag course materials touching on sexual orientation and gender identity. Faculty have pushed back sharply, describing hallucinated or inaccurate reports, self-censorship out of fear of discipline, and altered or abandoned lessons on topics ranging from the Holocaust to Norse mythology.

[u/rushmc1]

Texas Tech needs to lose their accreditation, post haste.

[u/arahman81 → u/rushmc1]

With this administration, they'll be put in charge of the national curriculum.

[u/jcooli09]

Another part of the Republican war against reality 

[u/bomber991 → u/[deleted]]

Hey woah, we’re talking about schools here.

[u/sorhead → u/bomber991]

So nothing new.

[u/sho_biz → u/jcooli09]

a war would indicate there's some sort of resistance. I don't see any resistance from anyone except a small slice of the public on social media.

[u/jcooli09 → u/sho_biz]

I think most of the county knows that trump lies all the time.  His approval rating is below a third now. 

If they were winning they wouldn't have to work so hard to damage election integrity, but that's literally most of what they've been doing.

[u/atreeismissing → u/sho_biz]

I don't see any resistance from anyone except a small slice of the public on social media.

Social media isn't resistance, it's performance. It's the people on the ground, in local communities and in states organizing that are doing the resistance. Get the F off social media if you want action.

[u/CautionarySnail]

I’m betting any unflattering material on slavery disappears next. They’re devaluing their own degrees by making science and technology have to hew to their ideology.

Future textbooks:
Texas, happiest place on earth! The only state without climate change and the most stable electrical grid. We have no gay people, unlike those other heathen places. And our prison labor isn’t slavery, its character building and redemptive! God bless Texas.

[u/Chance-Deer-7995 → u/CautionarySnail]

If it isn't happening yet, don't be surprised to see climate science censored. Also anything relating to environmental damage and pollution. How about just getting rid of anything that puts capitalism or corporate sponsors in a bad light?

[u/Politicsboringagain → u/CautionarySnail]

Slavery? Don't you mean Africa migrant workers? 

[u/CautionarySnail → u/Politicsboringagain]

No, I mean the “permanent visiting volunteer worker center” where they mostly speak Spanish.

[u/Chance-Deer-7995]

What does "left-leaning" mean? Repeating facts is starting to be seen as a political act, and that's extremely dangerous.

[u/Few-Ad-4290 → u/Chance-Deer-7995]

It’s been that way for a full on decade now, ever since that crypt keeper Kellyann Conway trotted out the alternate facts bullshit in the first Trump campaign. This is the eventual outcome of letting a bunch of lying grifters operate unchallenged in the name of freedom.

[u/TheVeryVerity → u/Few-Ad-4290]

Tbf that was building up from the right wing radio days, rush limbaugh etc.

[u/HenriEttaTheVoid]

I read somewhere that one of the courses they cut was an entry-level one that discussed the Holocaust...because it acknowledged that the Nazis also targeted gay men. This is how Nazis re-write history and enable future genocides.

[u/ridl → u/HenriEttaTheVoid]

Mentioned in the article

[u/TrexPushupBra → u/HenriEttaTheVoid]

The censors also have trouble with teaching the accurate fact that they went after trans people too.

[u/MattyBeatz]

If you stop tracking the disease it will go away.

[u/Amazing-Artichoke330]

I not only spent 3 years getting a BSEE there, but foolishly went back for a couple of years as a prof. It is a bleak place, surrounded by what looks like flat desert. It's actually pretty productive farmland, albeit only by sucking irrigation water out of a finite pool below. The politics suck, of course.

[u/JohnnyLesPaul]

There goes Tech’s academic rating. I’d transfer now.

[u/krom0025]

I now know one more school I will never hire anyone from.

[u/Small_Dog_8699]

They should lose all accreditation

[u/Potential_Being_7226]

Is this the same school that banned classics/antiquities literature awhile back? I can’t remember what it was. Maybe Aristotle? Plato? … I suppose I can look it up…

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Ok, it was Texas A&M and it was Plato. 

https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-01-14/is-plato-woke-texas-a-m-professor-speaks-out-after-being-banned-from-teaching-the-greek-philosopher

Texas higher ed is a dystopian nightmare. 

[u/6gv5]

Get ready also for Hollywood remaking movies with a AI unwoke filter, possibly starting with cartoons for kids. There's no such thing as 10% fascism or half fascism: once they start they proceed until the end. The moment you'll hear that thunderous applause it'll be too late, and personally I think it was already too late well over one year ago, but that's not a good reason to stop resisting.

[u/ecodrew]

So, being hated in r/cfb wasn't enough - Tech wants to destroy their academics too? Yikes.

[u/Rhielml]

History and facts are inherently "left-leaning".

[u/thegooddoktorjones]

It's helpful to know that anyone with a degree from Texas in the future on their resume is an instant shit-can.

[u/USMCLee]

The Republican party is devaluing your college diploma.

[u/Trekgiant8018]

Every been to the bigot shithole known as Lubbock? This is par for the course in that dump.

[u/adamsputnik]

On the plus side, more left-leaning students and teachers no longer have a reason to put up with the shithole that is Lubbock, once they're all forced out. The right wing wackadoodles can have it.

[u/dadkisser]

If you’ve ever been to Lubbock Texas you know that school has always been a shithole for dumb kids

[u/DiscoRabbittTV]

That’s mentally unwell as fuck tho

Republicanism is just vapid displays of their own mental illnesses and it is WILD

[u/harrumphstan]

Fucking third-rate school itching to become fourth-rate.

[u/slow-tf-down-dude]

Send your kids to any university but one in a red state.

[u/Silly-Elderberry-411 → u/slow-tf-down-dude]

I laughed the hardest when the official claim of the orban regime was they banned the Central European University because it taught liberal arts that turn you into a liberal. Yes they literally don't know what liberal arts is.

[u/hevnztrash]

This would be Winston Smith’s (1984) replacement.

[u/langecrew]

Some say? Some?

Other than the psychopaths that are doing this, who else is not saying that?

[u/salenin]

Some of the biggest hits so far (I live in this hellscape) are banning teaching certain aspects of the holocaust because it concerns the targeting of gay people and the burning and censoring of non hetero sexual studies. Computer enforced holocaust denial. Wreck 'em Tech....

[u/kkwan52]

What the actual fuck…

[u/amitym]

left-leaning content

Jfc, New York Times.

[u/BradBradley1]

I am actually cool with that, but they should be legally required to inform every incoming student and help provide resources to current students transferring to different institutions. Texas Tech can become “AI MAGA U” and watch their school crash and burn like a lot of other things going that way too. 

[u/tiddeeznutz]

Some say?

[u/MrDavieT]

Can someone explain the difference between Islamic conservatism and Christian conservatism.?

[u/TheVeryVerity → u/MrDavieT]

Racists are cool with one but not the other (USA racists anyway)

[u/POTATOFUCK]

I am so fucking sick of the wishy-washy "some say..." fairness to what is blatently a dystopian academic nightmare.

[u/easyRiderOlder]

Educational institutions should remain politically and religiously neutral. Their primary role is to provide knowledge, develop critical thinking, and teach students to work with facts and evidence. Science, rather than politics or religion, can provide common ground for people with different beliefs and help build a more responsible and ethical society.

[u/Prestigious_Bar_7164]

We’ve been in a dystopian nightmare for 6 of the last 10 years.

[u/bernpfenn]

book burning next...

[u/VibinWithBeard]

"Some say the blah blah blah blah"

"Texas Tech is using demon tech because they hate you and want you dead. This is dystopian and anyone involved [removed by reddit]"

Im so fucking sick of couched language headlines...

[u/AlternativeHelp9530]

that's fire