In this podcast, you will hear about AI and the future ahead. AI has recently taken the world by storm. Its groundbreaking capabilities are being used for customer service, generating more reliable credit scores, enabling trading and money management, regulatory compliance, security and fraud prevention, and more. This dynamic discussion features Jack Brennan (CIS Founding Chair & Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group), John Behrens (Director, Office of Digital Strategy, College of Arts & Letters at University of Notre Dame), Brian Barbetta (Wellington Management Global Industry Analyst), and Shelley Zhuang (Founder and Managing Partner at 11.2 Capital).

Highlights

• Overview of Catholic Investment Services and its mission
• Who are the panelists: Jack Brennan, Brian Barbetta, John Behrens, and Shelley Zhuang
• What AI is and its various aspects
• Specifics of generative AI and its use in text, images, video, and sound
• The imperfection of the systems: Current limitations of AI systems, common mistakes, and improvements anticipated in the future
• The reliability of artificial intelligence
• Practical uses of AI
• Emerging businesses and opportunities that are being developed surrounding generative AI
• The reliance of AI behavior on the data type and access, with changing policies concerning data access from platforms like Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Reddit
• The possibilities for malicious use and misuse of AI
• Legal issues related to the ownership of AI-generated inputs and outputs
• Raising the issue of AI's impact on the environment due to the power consumption of data centers and the energy requirements of AI operations
• Nascent stage of AI development and the opportunities that lie ahead

Episode Resources

• Connect with Catholic Investment Services
• https://catholicinvest.org/about-us/
• https://catholicinvest.org/about-us/#board-of-trustees
• https://catholicinvest.org/contact-us/
• https://catholicinvest.org/cis-institute/