{"id":54818,"date":"2024-04-25T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=54818"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:50:23","slug":"prof-wesley-wildman-featured-in-bu-today-for-ai-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-wesley-wildman-featured-in-bu-today-for-ai-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Wesley Wildman Featured in BU Today for AI Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU Today<\/a><em>\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0<em>article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/bu-ai-task-force-report-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI Task Force Report Recommends Critical Embrace of Technology and Cautious Use of AI-Detector Apps<\/a><\/em><em>\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/doug-most\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug Most<\/a>, featuring Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/wesley-j-wildman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wesley Wildman<\/a>, published on April 11, 2024.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The headlines have been blaring, with new ones coming every day: \u201cAI Will Shake Up Higher Ed: Are Colleges Ready?\u201d and \u201cFrom admissions to teaching to grading, AI is infiltrating higher education.\u201d And this one, \u201cAlarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love it, like it, or loathe it, artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Responding to that reality, BU formed the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/about\/committees\/boston-university-ai-task-force\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boston University AI Task Force<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>in fall 2023 to examine the impact of generative AI tools \u201con education and research, and review existing policies adopted by BU schools, colleges, and other academic institutions.\u201d It\u2019s an exercise colleges across the country have undertaken as they seek to put in place guidelines and policies for a technology that is still new and still taking shape.<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>recently reported that of \u201cuniversities making AI policies, nearly half of institutions (43 percent) are working with a third party to develop AI strategy, while 30 percent are working with peer institutions or networks and 22 percent are working with professional associations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/bu-ai-task-force-report-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from BU Today\u2019s\u00a0article \u201cAI Task Force Report Recommends Critical Embrace of Technology and Cautious Use of AI-Detector Apps\u201d by Doug Most, featuring Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics Wesley Wildman, published on April 11, 2024.\u00a0 &#8230; The headlines have been blaring, with new ones coming every day: \u201cAI Will Shake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203],"tags":[194,401,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54819,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54818\/revisions\/54819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}