Episode 25 -- AI: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

AI can write our papers, create our computer programs, analyze our data—and increasingly make decisions on its own. So…what could possibly go wrong? On this episode of The Professor is Live!, Professor Mark Salisbury talks with Dr. Volker Petersen, an industrial engineer and adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, whose thinking about AI has changed considerably over the past several months. We talk about If AI writes the assignment, are students still learning? If AI replaces junior engineers and programmers, where will tomorrow's senior experts come from? And as AI systems become increasingly autonomous, how do we make sure humans remain responsible for the decisions that matter?