Teaching Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to "Everyone Else"

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become essential technologies in modern organizations, but there currently is a lack of AI/ML literacy across workforces. To help alleviate this problem, universities should offer courses providing a basic understanding of AI and ML. To date, mainly (or only) Computer Science departments offer such courses. In this paper, we discuss the importance of offering introductory courses on AI/ML to undergraduate business students. We focus on business students to keep the paper length manageable but note that the paper applies to most university majors. We first offer a rationale for these courses and follow with a brief course design for a three-course introductory sequence in AI and ML.