Collaboration in the Workplace: Benefits and Strategies
November 29, 2023
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How AI is shaping the workplace. Learn the basic functions of generative AI and how it will impact workplace tasks, jobs, the labor market, and organizational strategy.
Instructor: Josh Pasek
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Beginner level
Interest in generative AI’s workplace implications.
Gain perspective on the strengths and limitations of generative AI in the workplace
Understand the ways that generative AI will shape jobs and workplace tasks
Understand the implications of implementing generative AI in a changing workplace
Forecast the risks implicated in the adoption of generative AI across domains
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Generative AI is poised to become one of the most disruptive technologies of our generation. In this course series, you will better understand how generative AI works, what we can learn from disruptive technologies of the past, and the role AI may play in workplaces in the future. In “Navigating Disruption: Generative AI in the Workplace”, you’ll explore how artificial intelligence is set to influence various industries and jobs, and how you can ensure generative AI tools are used responsibly in your workplace.
Applied Learning Project
Across this series, there are multiple opportunities for you to experiment with generative artificial intelligence. You will also consider and design policies around how generative artificial intelligence can and should be implemented in the workplace.
Explain the basics of generative AI tools
Compare the effects of generative AI to earlier technological advances
Identify the key accomplishments and limitations of generative AI tools
Identify basic strategies for writing prompts for generative AI
Classify key ways that AI might influence workplace tasks
Highlight the impact of generative AI for different types of work
Examine the appropriate use cases for generative AI
Discuss how AI might change the distributions of tasks within jobs
Identify ways generative AI might alter managerial work
Anticipate challenges that generative AI can pose for workers and management
Forecast implications of AI for interactions between companies and customers
Explore generative AI’s influence on who takes responsibility for AI products and worker’s autonomy
Identify ways generative AI algorithms can lead to biases in decision-making
Anticipate implications of a lack of algorithmic transparency for decision-making
Plan proactively to protect data security and user privacy
Consider ethics at every stage of the generative AI decision-making process
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