Managing AI: Algorithms, Applications, and Agents
Program Details
About the Program
Enhance your ability to leverage AI in creative, proactive, and socially responsible ways.
AI literacy is an essential skill for today’s business leaders. Developing this capability requires addressing several critical questions: How do AI algorithms work? How can organizations use AI, including agentic AI, to solve real challenges? Why do Generative AI systems hallucinate? What should AI systems be allowed to see and do, and where do humans need to stay in the loop and accountable? What are the risks of AI, and how can they be reduced?
Experience
Over two interactive days, you'll explore these questions with Professors Yuqing (Ching) Ren and De Liu through live demos, team exercises, case discussions, and use cases across finance, healthcare, marketing, and HR. You’ll leave with a detailed roadmap for:
- Understanding how major AI algorithms work
- Proposing and evaluating AI initiatives
- Building an AI-ready infrastructure and culture
- Deciding what agentic AI can access and change
- Keeping humans accountable
- Addressing the ethical and social challenges of AI as it evolves
Learn how you can customize this program for your organization.
Program Contacts
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- Phone: 612-850-6731
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- Phone: 612-625-5412
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Who Should Take This Course & Why
Additional Ways to Participate
Attend as a Group
Maximize the return on your organization’s development investment by attending as a group. When you send three of your employees to the same course, a fourth employee may attend the course at no charge. Additional group pricing benefits are also available for larger cohorts through our Talent Development Partnerships.
Customize This Program For Your Organization
We can customize this course's content, format, and delivery to meet your organization’s specific learning objectives. Whether you are looking for a highly effective program that you can deliver quickly or a fully customized program built from the ground up, our team of experts will work with you to deliver the right approach for maximum impact.
Schedule
Session Overview
- CNN, RL, & AI Applications in Finance & Healthcare: Explore the workings of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) as well as the applications of AI in finance, accounting, and healthcare.
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- LLM, RAG, & AI Applications in Marketing & HR: Learn how Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) work. Explore applications of AI in marketing and HR.
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Agentic AI for Leaders: Through a hands-on business case, learn what distinguishes an AI agent from a chat assistant, why knowledge infrastructure matters as much as the model, and how to design the division of labor and decision rights between people and AI.
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Risks, Challenges, & The Future of AI: Discuss the ethical and social challenges of AI, including governance, platform competition, Explainable AI, AI hallucination, environmental impact, job displacement, superintelligence, and the future of AI and humanity.
Faculty
Professor, Mary & Jim Lawrence Fellow
Xian Dong Eric Jing Professor of Information and Decision Sciences