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UVA Darden LaCross AI Institute Awards Fellowships in AI Research
The Fellowship program serves as vehicle for the LaCross AI Institute to pursue and support collaboration in ethical AI research across multiple disciplines, and this year’s recipients exemplify that collaborative spirit.
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UVA Darden Pioneers AI-Powered Business Education With OpenAI Partnership
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business today announced a partnership with OpenAI, solidifying its position as a leader in AI-driven business education. The initiative brings ChatGPT EDU to Darden, providing faculty, staff and students with a secure, compliant and tailored AI platform designed for academic excellence and organizational innovation.
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Q&A: What Is DeepSeek, the Bargain AI Roiling the Stock Market?
Just a week or so ago, a little-known Chinese technology company called DeepSeek quietly debuted an artificial intelligence app. Is this a technology fluke? A shot across the computing bow? A lasting change in the AI landscape? UVA Today chatted with Michael Albert, an AI and computing expert at Darden, about these questions and more.
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Trump Backs Bold AI Agenda. What Are the Risks and Rewards?
After a presidential race that didn’t give much attention to AI, the technology suddenly appears front-and-center for the new administration, producing both excitement and concern. The Darden Report checked in with University of Virginia Darden School of Business professors Mike Lenox and Tim Laseter for analysis.
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How Will AI Fundamentally Transform Our Economy?
When the globe’s most powerful nations needed guidance on how artificial intelligence might affect their collective economies, they turned to the University of Virginia’s Anton Korinek. UVA Today caught up with Korinek while he was on a plane returning from San Francisco, where he organized a conference and presented a talk called “The Economics of Transformative AI.”
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UVA Darden Conference Links Ethical Value Chain to AI Boom
As AI-powered industries barrel headlong into an unknown future, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is grappling with the many implications of AI’s peril and promise. At the recent conference hosted by the LaCross Institute for Ethical Artificial Intelligence inBusiness, speakers from academia, government and industry sought to make sense of the once-in-a-generation technological marvel and the extraordinary ethical complications.