Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: Building the Future

As an assistant professor of information systems and analytics and the inaugural WIPFLI Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. April Song spends much of her day thinking about how an AI-shaped future will look and the role that her students will play in shaping it.

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Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: A Person鈥檚 Place

Dr. Badar Al Lawati, assistant professor of practice in information systems and business analytics, has been working with artificial intelligence for decades. Students in his analytics and information systems courses use AI to combine sets of data, clean up errors in the newly formed database and identify trends that can be used to make business decisions.

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Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Use

As artificial intelligence becomes a bigger part of higher education, business and consumer trends, subject matter experts are paying closer attention to its ethical use. Dr. Terence Ow, WIPLI Fellow in AI and professor of information systems and analytics in the College of Business Administration, has thought extensively about how higher education institutions can ensure artificial intelligence is used responsibly.

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Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: Building Customized Education for All

The assignment structure for learning business ethics has remained largely the same for decades. A professor assigns a case, then all students read, analyze and write about that case. 

Hunter Sandidge, assistant professor of practice and director of fintech, identified a major flaw with that model: all his students are going into different careers, and responding to the same prompt does not capture the diversity of their future experiences. His solution? Build EthicsBot, a customizable AI copilot for his class.