With our interdisciplinary minor in AI, you will explore the underlying technology that enables Artificial Intelligence, potential policies for deploying AI responsibly, and authentic use cases for stakeholder-based designs and solutions.
Influence the Future.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, is rapidly emerging as a ubiquitous tool with the potential to affect every industry and our everyday lives. However, AI also has the potential to cause harms resulting from misuse of intellectual property used to train the models, from systemic biases inherent in training data, and in misinterpretation and misuse of hallucinated responses, among others.
As a result, it is imperative that engaged citizens be equipped with a foundational understanding of the way that AI is trained, how AI processes prompts and generates responses, how AI is used in various contexts, and how to identify and mitigate harmful outcomes. Because AI will influence daily operations in many industries as well as the consumers of those industries, a foundation of AI tools, practices, and outcomes should be considered core curricula.
Putting Humans and human impact at the Core
The Minor in AI provides a balanced foundation of AI tools, practice, and effects, intended to enhance students’ technical capabilities to be competent creative users of these technologies, while simultaneously equipping students to think critically and holistically about the artifacts generated by those tools.
In the Ursinus spirit of focusing on the human in the loop, this minor prepares students to be good critical users of AI as well as good stewards of the technology.
We seek to enable meaningful pursuit of the technology and its place in our lives through many avenues.
