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AI hub recognizes graduate students for exploring responsible AI, data-science work principles

 A celebratory lunch held on Sept. 10 at Posvar Hall recognized this year’s HAIL Graduate Awardee Program, honoring individuals whose research, teaching and leadership aim to redefine artificial intelligence (AI) and data science through HAIL, the University’s Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership.  Continue reading »

AI forum highlights disruptions, apprehensions, energy demands of rapidly expanding field

When it comes to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in society and academia, the more that many Pitt students, staff and faculty learn about how it functions — and its implications on knowledge, career fields and energy usage — the more concerns, apprehensions and questions they seem to have.

That was among the takeaways from “What Should I Do About AI: A Pitt Community Workshop on AI and Energy” forum on Sept. 2 in the William Penn Union Assembly Room. Continue reading »

Meredith L. Mavero: Learn to Connect the Dots

Program Officer at Hillman Family Foundations.

Part of Advice from the Board, a HAIL series where we ask advisory board members the three questions students care about most: what skills to build, how to stand out, and what to go try. Here’s what Meredith had to say.

Sundeep Tangirala: It’s the Questions You Ask Back

Director of Data Science at First National Bank (FNB).

Part of Advice from the Board, a HAIL series where we ask advisory board members the three questions students care about most: what skills to build, how to stand out, and what to go try. Here’s what Sundeep had to say.

EAAMO Reflections: Emily part 2 - Small Wins

By: Emily Durning

EAAMO Reflections: Emily Durning

By: Emily Durning

University of Pittsburgh’s Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership Announces Expanded Leadership Team

The University of Pittsburgh’s Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership (HAIL) continues to advance its mission to support responsible, human-centered AI and data science through an expanded leadership structure. Michael Colaresi, currently Associate Vice Provost for Data Science, was appointed by Pitt’s provost as the inaugural director of the Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership (HAIL), a new initiative launched to coordinate and advance campus-wide efforts in AI and responsible data science, effective January 1 of this year.

Bridget M. Fitzpatrick: Can You Explain It to a 10-Year-Old?

Senior Product Manager for Data Science at Dick’s Sporting Goods. Part of Advice from the Board, a HAIL series where we ask advisory board members the three questions students care about most: what skills to build, how to stand out, and what to go try. Here’s what Bridget had to say.

Albrecht Tracy Powell: Learn to Leverage AI

Albrecht is a Managing Director at Accenture, where he helps lead their AI and Data practice, and runs their Pittsburgh Office. He is also a Adjunct Faculty in AI and Analytics and an Executive in Residence at Pitt’s Katz Business School. “Advice from the Board”, is a HAIL series where we ask advisory board members the three questions students care about most: what skills to build, how to stand out, and what to go try. Here’s what Albrecht had to say.

Inside the Pitt AI Academy: A Conversation with Dr. Mohammad Alexanderani

https://youtu.be/XSVU5b35n2E 

AI Teaching Field Notes: Maureen Gallagher

In Maureen Gallagher's Professional Uses of Social Media course, students have to decide, in a real assignment, whether and how to use generative AI themselves. That decision, and everything students learn from making it, is the heart of the lessons that Professor Gallagher shares with this AI Teaching Field Notes. 

https://youtu.be/9ftT1YadZTg

The assignment

Where Research Meets Reality: HAIL-MCSI Summer Researchers Tackle AI, Sustainability, and the Future of Learning

At a recent lunch gathering hosted by HAIL (the Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership) and the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, this summer’s MCSI research cohort sat down with faculty advisors and industry-connected guests to share project updates and dig into one of the most pressing questions in higher education today: What does it mean to learn in the age of AI?

Leading Together in the Era of AI: Improving Human Judgment Through Connection

By: Michael Colaresi, PhD | Director, Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership

I know I'm not alone in finding AI dazzling, dizzying, and depressing—sometimes all at once. But sitting in front of my screen, just me against a billion-parameter model and a suite of surveillance tools with a profit motive, the work can feel lonely and the decisions daunting.

HAIL Graduate Awardees Spotlight: Rose Gatfield-Jeffries

Kicking off our HAIL Graduate Awardees Spotlight Series, we have Rose Gatfield-Jeffries (she/her) from the History and Philosophy of Science Department within the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Gatfield-Jeffries, who has spent three years at Pitt and is beginning her dissertation, is interested in the use of AI in scientific research. Specifically, she uses epistemological (differentiating between justified belief or opinion) and ethical lenses when analyzing this use.

RDS Scholars Spotlight: Ethics of Gen AI Intelligence in Research

Students: Akarshana Rajesh, Leila Pridotkas, Sanvi Gandikota, Julian Reinstein