Prof. Raghu Santanam, McCord Endowed Chair of Business, W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University delivered a KCIS Invited Talk on AI & Future of Work on 24 September.
The advent of robotics, machine learning and big data analytics is disrupting jobs, industries and markets. The societal impacts of these rapid advances are exciting. But if machines can do what our colleagues are doing now, what happens to our companies? How does making an innovation in one product or service change what’s offered elsewhere?
During the talk there were discussions on a number of salient issues like:
– Where we are in terms of AI technology today
– Growth of AI applications
– Types of jobs susceptible to automation and AI today, in five years, and in 15 years
– Identify and discuss opportunities for infusing AI into products and
services in specific business contexts
Raghu Santanam joined the W. P. Carey School of Business as an assistant professor of information systems in 1998. He was named chair of the Department of Information Systems in 2015. Prof. Raghu Santanam’s research interests are in Business Process Change, Health IT (EMR and PHR), Consumer Information Systems and Information Economics. He currently serves on the editorial boards of premier journals and has served as an advisory editor of the Elsevier series on “Handbooks in Information Systems.” He has been commended for his contributions to academia, most recently winning the 2012 Outstanding Teaching Award – MBA and Graduate Business.