School officials say the program is designed to offer something to students in a variety of disciplines and prepare them for the rapidly changing workforce.<\/p>\n
ADRIAN, Mich. \u2014 Adrian College is launching a new major in artificial intelligence this fall, giving students the chance to study both the technical applications of AI and the ethical questions surrounding its use.<\/p>\n
The program is designed to prepare students for the rapidly changing workforce, said Tony Coumoundouros, dean of graduate studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to make our students capable of competing in the marketplace, being prepared for rapid changes in the marketplace and in their jobs. And we think AI skills are really important to pursue,\u201d Coumoundouros said.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Docking, president of Adrian College, said the program is not just for future AI professionals, but for students across multiple disciplines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel like most students won\u2019t go into that, but will need to use AI in their jobs, and so we\u2019ve coupled it with just about every major that we have here,\u201d Docking said.<\/p>\n
Students like senior computer science major Ariane Ouedraogo see the program as an opportunity to apply AI to real-world problems. She is researching ways to use AI to improve hearing devices, inspired by her sister, who has a hearing impairment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to use AI to solve problems and to make people\u2019s lives better,\u201d Ouedraogo said. \u201cSo, it really means a lot for me to be here and do AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faculty members say students will gain a deep understanding of how AI systems function and make decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstanding how this is done and implemented will help my students, the community, understand how AI is making those decisions,\u201d said Mohammed Ouali, associate professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science.<\/p>\n
Ouedraogo said she believes AI will shape the future well beyond her years in college.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think AI is the future,\u201d she said. \u201cDoing a program like that is going to help students to be more creative, to think of how they can use this powerful tool to impact their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"School officials say the program is designed to offer something to students in a variety of disciplines and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-97934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}