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AI: Beyond the Headlines
Monday, October 20 | 5:00pm – 6:30pm
A Reality Check on Business and Society
Every day brings new AI headlines—spectacular promises, dire warnings, and billion-dollar bets. But what’s real, what’s rumor, and who’s truly profiting?
Part of the Business Journalist in Residence 2025 program, this event features Deepa Seetharaman, Reuters tech correspondent, moderating a panel of UW experts for a reality check on artificial intelligence. The conversation will move past the hype to explore the ground truth of AI: how it’s being implemented in business, where it’s falling short, and what its future might really hold.
What are we talking about?
- How AI systems are trained—and where they fall short
- The transfer of human expertise into models: risks of replacement or misrepresentation
- AI’s business outcomes: successes, failures, and who profits
- The potential “AI bubble” and long-term economic prospects
- Implications for jobs, management, and organizations
- How AI is being used meaningfully in business and research at WSB
This event is open to all—faculty, staff, students, and the public. Please invite your classes and colleagues!
