IBL News | New York
Fifteen universities, along with the non-profit National Humanities Center (NHC) and financial support from Google, will launch courses in Responsible AI technologies.
The goal is to “help students comprehend the myriad ways AI technologies are integrated into modern life and to think through the ethical issues involved in developing and deploying them,” according to Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based NHC.
Participating institutions will include leading public and private research universities, liberal arts colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic Serving Institutions from across the United States. They are:
Arizona State University
George Mason University
Texas A&M University
Bowdoin College
Johnson C. Smith University
University of California, Santa Cruz
Case Western Reserve University
North Carolina State University
University of Florida
Davidson College
Rice University
University of Georgia
Duke University
Swarthmore College
University of Utah
Faculty from these institutions will develop courses focused on developing responsible AI that will be offered to undergraduates at their home institutions during the 2023–24 academic year.
“Artificial intelligence has infiltrated the ways we conduct business, govern, and communicate,” says Robert D. Newman, President and Director of the National Humanities Center. “The large-scale cultural and societal implications associated with these changes—as well as the ethical questions they raise—pose serious challenges as well as opportunities.”
The NHC’s In Our Image conference held in April 2021 examined issues surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence through a series of virtual events.
Google’s gift amount for the “Responsible AI” program was not disclosed by NHC.
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