Artificial Intelligence and its Business Applications

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MIS 520 – Artificial Intelligence and its Ethical Applications in Business (3 credits) This course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in AI, with a focus on their current and potential practical applications in business. The course covers fundamental AI concepts such as search methods, logic, knowledge representation, and natural language processing in sufficient detail to understand how these concepts and associated tools can be applied to solve practical business problems in ways that create fair and ethical solutions. Students will learn about bias in data, algorithms, and human decision making, and methods of avoiding the transfer of those biases to AI-based solutions. They will gain practical experience though a project about the opportunities of AI-based solutions to assist with making decisions and predictions and transforming business and work, as well as the challenges of doing so in a fair and ethical manner that benefits individuals, the environment, and society at large.