‘Over the past academic year, I served as the Inaugural Faculty Fellow for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at my university, a mid-sized public institution in the South. In that time, I acted as an AI curriculum developer, community resource, media personality, and intermediary between faculty and administration. I orchestrated a free AI certificate program that boasts nearly 50,000 enrollees from 150 countries; co-designed an interdisciplinary AI minor; co-led a task force that developed a workflow for the procurement of new AI tools; gave 30+ talks across 4 countries; wrote a case study about the strategic deployment of AI at my university; and advised non-profit organizations, universities, and elected officials on AI strategy and policy. It has been a wonderful journey that resulted in a promotion, countless new connections in the local tech scene, and solidifying my university’s reputation for preparing our students to join an increasingly AI-powered workforce.’
Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/jgellers/p/i-was-a-university-ai-czar-im-not
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