AI at Smith: Transforming teaching, research and the practice of business

AI is already transforming the way people work, and presents major threats and opportunities for business and society.
At the Smith School, our robust research enterprise explores the capabilities of AI as well as the careful design of incentives and penalties, governance and management strategies, the balancing of short-term and long-term interests, and the future of labor itself. Our learnings can guide industry and government in the responsible and effective use of these new tools for those seeking to formulate a winning AI strategy.
In the classroom, we also lead the way in teaching generative and contextual AI across undergraduate and graduate programs. Students learn how to assess and mitigate the bias in the underlying data and the resulting AI models, track the provenance of data that is training large language models, design jobs and workflows that help workers leverage human capabilities such as empathy, creativity, judgment and leadership in concert with capabilities of AI systems and models and design AI systems to match the role that they will play for a given task.