We’re exploring the topic of artificial intelligence on this episode of MSU Today. We are we now? And what’s on the horizon?

The panel featured Bill Hart-Davidson, associate dean of graduate studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University and senior researcher at WIDE, and Anjana Susarla, Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI in Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business.

Conversation Highlights:

(0:33) – What is artificial intelligence?

(3:07) – What’s good about AI and what concerns you?

(6:04) – What is AI’s impact on higher education?

(11:36) – Could AI lead to a “dumber” society?

(14:19) – When is AI a threat and when is it a new job skill people should acquire? What labor disruption is AI causing?

(16:38) – Is this the first time AI is threatening white collar jobs?

(18:34) – Talk about the new guidelines on AI issued recently by the White House.

(23:57) – What are some facts about AI you’d like to reinforce and what are some myths you’d like to dispel?

(26:40) – What has changed in the year since ChatGPT came out? What concerns you moving forward?

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