Artificial Intelligence: Hero Or Villain For Higher Education?

There's often a fine line between hero and villain, and by most accounts, artificial intelligence (AI) is on the villain side, sucking jobs out of the economy. These days you can't throw a rock without hitting some pundit prognosticating on the millions of jobs that will be lost from AI. One oft-cited Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs are in jeopardy. But while AI conjures up robots and dystopian science fiction movies, it isn't magic. Today's AI consists of algorithms developed with "training data" that improve over time, otherwise known as machine learning.