Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has started to infiltrate basically every industry on the planet. That includes the business of higher education, but one college in Arizona learned about the potential pitfalls the hard way after turning to A.I. to announce the names of students who’d earned a degree at its graduation ceremony.
There is little doubt that artificial intelligence is here to stay in some form after taking the world by storm, and even its biggest critics have to acknowledge it has the potential to streamline many facets of modern existence and bring some positive change into the world.
With that said, it is impossible to ignore the shortcomings and occasionally alarming flaws of a form of technology that’s still very much in its infancy, and evangelists have not done themselves any favors in their quest to win over skeptics by attempting to push it onto the masses in spite of a slew of well-documented weaknesses…