Wharton Webinar Series

AI Horizons

 

Looking Towards the Horizon

The AI Horizons webinar series, hosted by AI at Wharton, offers an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge artificial intelligence business applications and their implications for various industries and companies. Each session features a lineup of distinguished academic speakers – including leading AI researchers and professors from top universities – who share their latest findings and theoretical advancements at the intersection of AI and business. These webinars often include interactive segments, where participants can pose questions to the experts, and gain a deeper understanding of AI trends, research directions, and future opportunities in the field. To register for upcoming AI Horizons webinars, be sure to check out our Events page.

AI Adoption Report

AI at Wharton is thrilled to have partnered with GBK Collective to produce Growing Up: Navigating Gen AI’s Early Years. This is an extensively researched report that provides an in-depth analysis of the state of Generative AI (Gen AI) adoption, its business applications, and future prospects. Written by Jeremy Korst, Partner, GBK Collective, Stefano Puntoni, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton, and Mary Purk, Former Executive Director of AI at Wharton, this report comes at a critical moment in AI’s evolution, as companies transition from initial excitement to deeper experimentation and efforts to prove the Return on Investment (ROI).

Previous Webinars

AI-Worker Collaboration

November 15, 2024

In this installment of AI at Wharton’s AI Horizons series, three leading academics Anil Doshi, Assistant professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the UCL School of Management, Alex Moehring, Assistant professor at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University, and Nick Pangakis, PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, join Mary Purk, Executive Director of AI at Wharton, for a well-researched conversation on collaboration between workers and AI.

AI’s Effect on Human Ability

November 8, 2024

In this installment of AI at Wharton’s AI Horizons webinar series, Stefano Puntoni, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton, hears from Sungwoo Cho, Assistant Professor of Economics at the US Military Academy at West Point, Antonios Stamatogiannakis, Assistant Professor of Marketing at IE University, and Xi Kang, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Economics at Vanderbilt University, as they present their research on the ways in which AI impacts and augments natural human ability.

AI’s Effect on the Workforce

November 1, 2024

Mary Purk, Executive Director of AI at Wharton, is joined by Morgan Frank, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Emma Rockall, PhD candidate at Stanford University, and Nataliya Wright, Assistant Professor at the Columbia Business for an installment of AI at Wharton’s AI Horizons Webinar series. The trio of academics present their latest research on how AI is impacting the workforce, and take a look at what the future of work may look like as AI tools become more sophisticated and ubiquitous.

AI & Job Replacement with Neil Thompson

October 25, 2024

Neil Thompson, Director of FutureTech at MIT, joins Mary Purk, Executive Director of AI at Wharton, for an installment of AI at Wharton’s ongoing AI Horizons series. Thompson also presents data on the cost and scale of AI and computer vision systems in work environments to determine the financial feasibility of large scale job replacement.

“The Skill Code” with Author Matt Beane

October 18, 2024

Matt Beane, Assistant Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines, joins Bob Meyer, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton, for a conversation on how workers can protect their skills and experiences in an age of intelligent machines.

Delivering Value with AI Investments

October 11, 2024

In this installment of AI Horizons, Mary Purk, Executive Director of AI at Wharton, speaks with Randy Bean, CEO and Co-Founder of NewVantage Partners, and author of Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI about how to maximize value in investing using artificial intelligence.

LLMs – Promise or Peril? 

October 4, 2024

In the latest installment of AI at Wharton’s AI Horizons webinar series, Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton is joined by David Rothschild, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, about whether the optimistic promise that Large Language Models (LLMs) provide ultimately outweigh the concerns they present.

The AI-Savvy Leader

June 7, 2024

Dive deep into a stimulating conversation between David De Cremer, author of “The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work,” and Stefano Puntoni, faculty co-director of AI at Wharton. Explore how leaders can reclaim their pivotal role in AI implementation, driving their organizations toward a growth-centric AI future. Read More >>

Co-Intelligence

May 10, 2024

In a dynamic discussion originally hosted on the Wharton School’s LinkedIn page, Ethan Mollick, associate professor of management, and Stefano Puntoni, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and faculty co-director of AI at Wharton, explore Mollick’s new book, Co-Intelligence. Read More >>

AI and Innovation

March 1, 2024

From crowdsourcing to search engines, emergent AI tools can help us innovate and drive progress in nearly every field. Hear from leading researchers from across academia about the ways artificial intelligence will help inform new developments. Read More >>

AI and the Workforce

February 16, 2024

When deployed correctly, generative artificial intelligence can help employees become more innovative, free them from mundane tasks, and improve their communication skills.  AI can help employees bring their best selves to work. Read More >>

AI and Machine Creativity

February 2, 2024

Guest scholars offered glimpses into the profound ways in which AI is changing everything and shared their excitement for Apple Vision Pro. Read More >>

AI and Wellbeing

December 15, 2023

Following the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022, Stack Overflow experienced a significant decline in daily visits by 1 million, indicating a 15% traffic reduction in four months, highlighting a shift towards automated answers and a social effect where users prefer AI-generated responses over human interaction. Read More >>