Margaret Moffett

Aug 28, 2024 | workshift.org | Elyse Ashburn |Margaret Moffett |Paul Fain

Table of ContentsIntroduction: The State of PlayThe Big IdeaTrends in Brief: What’s Taking ShapeDeep Dive on TrendsNo. 1: Targeted Tools Emerge, but Understanding LagsAccess vs.

Jun 19, 2024 | workshift.org | Margaret Moffett

Last winter, months before OpenAI’s announcement of its new generative AI platform ChatGPT Edu, a handful of universities were previewing the possibilities. At Arizona State University, a German professor started building a bot that evaluates students’ language proficiency and offers personalized feedback. At the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, MBA students reported thinking more deeply about the material after “discussing” their final assignment with the platform.

Mar 6, 2024 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

Microsoft and the nation’s largest federation of labor unions, the AFL-CIO, announced a partnership late last year to give workers more of a say about how artificial intelligence impacts their jobs. Neither group released specifics, but pledged to collaborate on worker-centered AI design and policies on ethics and skill development. The plan’s third prong — and the one receiving the least attention — may have the greatest immediate impact on the workforce: boosting basic AI literacy.

Jan 29, 2024 | ourstate.com | Margaret Moffett |Robin Sutton Anders |Robert Lopez |Katie Schanze

Fifty-four minutes into an hour-long set, the quartet is cooking under a dark brown gazebo. Tyson Baker’s hands walk, da-doom-doom-doom, down the fingerboard of his upright bass. Cecilia Richardson’s electric guitar carves mellow grooves into the dusk while Jack Jones’s brushes glide, shhhh-shhhh, across his snare. Ian Rood suddenly steps forward, raising trumpet to lips. The number they’re playing?

Jan 24, 2024 | workshift.opencampusmedia.org | Margaret Moffett |byMargaret Moffett

It has only been a week since Arizona State University announced its new partnership with OpenAI, but there’s already an arm’s-length list of questions about the implications for higher education and workforce development. Just a few: How exactly will the partnership better prepare students for the jobs of the future? Will such collaborations force institutions to boost AI literacy among their faculty and staff, who have to date received little training on generative AI?