Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Stephen Hawking said, “Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”
I don’t know if we have yet reached what Hawking predicted as “success,” but I do know that AI informs an increasing number of decisions made in the business world. While academic technology typically lags communications technologies, this year we and our students nevertheless have found ourselves negotiating the opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI.