VCU’s business school preps students for AI economy
VCU uses AI in business education and research, preparing students for careers while tackling ethics and energy issues.
Inside classrooms across the VCU School of Business, students feed questions into chatbots, stitch models into working systems and debate when to let a machine speak and when a person must.
The school has not just added a class or two. It’s opened labs and staged competitions, and the university launched a minor, all of which have brought advanced artificial intelligence into everyday coursework this semester and put live business problems on students’ plates.
“There always has to be a strong human element,” says Cesar Zamudio, Ph.D., a marketing professor who researches brand perceptions. The remark is less a warning than a central thesis: machines will do astonishing things, but people still drive the choices that matter.
Read Stephenie Overman’s full story on Virginia Business to see how the School of Business is rewiring its curriculum for an AI economy.
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