The Road to Accountable AI Eric Bradlow: AI Goes to Business School
Apr 3, 2025
Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton and a professor with expertise in Economics and Data Science, discusses the transformative power of AI in business education. He highlights Wharton's innovative analytics program and the new Accountable AI Lab aimed at fostering ethical practices in AI. The conversation covers the rise of generative AI, making data analysis accessible, and the importance of integrating legal frameworks into AI initiatives. Bradlow emphasizes the balance between ethics and profitability in algorithm design, advocating for collaboration across disciplines.
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Generative AI's Novel Capabilities
- Generative AI's novelty lies in content creation and multi-modal data processing.
- Traditional AI focused on encoding non-numeric data, but now models generate new content like text, images, and audio.
Democratizing Data Science
- Large language models democratize data science by putting analytic power in many hands.
- This enables people without programming backgrounds to do data-driven decision-making.
Fourfold Impact Strategy
- Engage four audiences: researchers, students, businesses, and society for impactful AI initiatives.
- Provide resources, experiential learning, partnerships, and ethical applications to lead comprehensively.