The Univ. of Delaware’s Lerner College of Business and Economics is adding more focus on artificial intelligence in its graduate programs.
As part of its Transformative Excellence Plan, the school is adding faculty and expanded programming in analytics, fintech and AI.
Oliver Yao is the Dean of UD’s Lerner College, and he says they’re just focusing on what’s needed in the ever-shifting business world.
"And we sense, that's where the industries are going, and that's where the jobs are going. And that's where the companies say they need a certain skill sets or knowledge. And then we start a new graduate program to trend to upscale the workforce over here," said Yao.
Yao adds if there wasn’t a market, there wouldn’t be a program.
Yao notes incorporating AI into its graduate programs also means teaching how to use it ethically.
"We educate our students to make sure they understand how to use AI responsibly. So, this past year, we started a new course at a graduate level called responsible AI," said Yao.
Yao says that’s the first layer of using AI. The second layer is professors and students not being afraid to use it because of any potential downside and harm it can cause.
