The University of Maryland (UMD) is launching a new institute focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
7News’ Lindsey Mastis met with UMD President Darryll Pines for more insight on how the program is coming together.
“My background is in aerospace engineering. And I have already used the technology. So I knew its potential,” said Pines.
In the world of AI the words ethics, equity, and responsibility get used a lot. At UMD, they’re practically written in stone as the university prepares to launch its Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute.
There is an innovation potential, but AI also has the potential to cause harm.
“Already, we’ve seen errors in the use of image processing software for different demographic groups. For example, often it misreads people of color because it hasn’t been trained on that many different types of people of color,” Pines said.
He said in the future, every UMD student will be required to take an AI course, and he hopes that it will have a ripple effect on society.
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