Northern Kentucky University announced Monday that it would be adding two new concentrations to its Master of Business Administration, or MBA, program: artificial intelligence and supply chain analytics. “Today’s business leaders are being asked to make high-stakes decisions environments shaped by real-time data and emerging technologies,” said Fernando Bleichmar, CEO of Risepoint, in the press […]
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Covington is using AI, here’s how
What you need to know The Covington Board of Commissioners voted this week to establish an in-house AI policy for city staff and city operations as one of the first steps in an institution-wide AI initiative dubbed Covington Operational Vision- Advance Innovation, or COV AI. Essam Elgusain, the city’s IT manager, traced the effort back […]
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How Chase College of Law is addressing the rise of AI
Faculty at NKU’s Chase College of Law are forming their own opinions about AI in the classroom and in the courtroom. “I still think it’s going to be a useful tool for the legal industry. The law firms are already using it heavily,” says Eric Young, the associate dean for Library and Technology Services at […]
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Community Voices: What AI really is (and what it isn’t)
This Community Voices column on AI is written by Dawn Winterhalter Parks, the director of BizAccessHub at Northern Kentucky University. “When I say peanut butter, what do you say?” Most people respond, “Jelly.” That’s prediction at work. It’s not emotion. It’s not intuition. It’s pattern recognition. Based on years of experience—or in the case of artificial intelligence, […]
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Community Voices: We’re still in the flip phone era of AI
This Community Voices column on AI is written by Dawn Parks, the director of BizAccessHub at Northern Kentucky University. Most small business owners I know are swamped. They’re trying to keep clients happy, make payroll, send invoices, post on social, follow up on leads — and somewhere in there, try to sleep. So when they […]
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Bridging the gap: How NKY is preparing for an AI-driven future
What will jobs look like in the future? Northern Kentucky’s economic and political leaders are asking themselves this question. Artificial intelligence and automation are rapidly integrating into the local economy, with workers in white—and blue-collar fields increasingly incorporating the technology into their daily work schedules. In 2023, consulting firm McKinsey & Company published a report […]
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Northern Kentucky University to offer an AI minor
Artificial Intelligence is being used in many ways at Northern Kentucky University, and the university is preparing its students for the future by offering an AI minor.
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‘It is alien species’: What is the state of AI in the NKY workplace?
Artificial intelligence is melding itself into the economy, creating radical changes in workplaces across the United States. With these changes, employers have been forced to grapple with its effects on company policy, employee workflow and implementation within the workplace. AI has been described in hyperbolic or even apocalyptic terms, with some business futurists warning of […]
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Committee receives overview of AI positives, negatives
Advocates for the commonwealth’s use of artificial intelligence offered legislators an overview of new technology – some of it already in use – during a meeting of the Interim Joint Committee on Tourism, Small Business, and Information Technology. Ben Kaner and Alicia Schollaert of Gartner, an international consulting firm, testified to the legislators Monday about […]