University of Michigan
Navigating Disruption: Generative AI in the Workplace Specialization
University of Michigan

Navigating Disruption: Generative AI in the Workplace Specialization

How AI is shaping the workplace. Learn the basic functions of generative AI and how it will impact workplace tasks, jobs, the labor market, and organizational strategy.

Josh Pasek

Instructor: Josh Pasek

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Beginner level

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1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Gain perspective on the strengths and limitations of generative AI in the workplace

  • Understand the ways that generative AI will shape jobs and workplace tasks

  • Understand the implications of implementing generative AI in a changing workplace

  • Forecast the risks implicated in the adoption of generative AI across domains

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

  • Explain the basics of generative AI tools

  • Compare the effects of generative AI to earlier technological advances

  • Identify the key accomplishments and limitations of generative AI tools

  • Identify basic strategies for writing prompts for generative AI

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: AI Basics
Category: Generative AI

What you'll learn

  • Classify key ways that AI might influence workplace tasks

  • Highlight the impact of generative AI for different types of work

  • Examine the appropriate use cases for generative AI

  • Discuss how AI might change the distributions of tasks within jobs

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Category: AI Implications
Category: Critical Thinking
Category: Workplace Tasks
Category: Generative AI

What you'll learn

  • Identify ways generative AI might alter managerial work

  • Anticipate challenges that generative AI can pose for workers and management

  • Forecast implications of AI for interactions between companies and customers

  • Explore generative AI’s influence on who takes responsibility for AI products and worker’s autonomy

Skills you'll gain

Category: Leadership & Management
Category: Workplace Policy
Category: Future of Work
Category: Generative AI

What you'll learn

  • Identify ways generative AI algorithms can lead to biases in decision-making

  • Anticipate implications of a lack of algorithmic transparency for decision-making

  • Plan proactively to protect data security and user privacy

  • Consider ethics at every stage of the generative AI decision-making process

Skills you'll gain

Category: Algorithmic Bias
Category: Transparency (Human-Computer Interaction)
Category: AI Copyright
Category: Generative AI

Instructor

Josh Pasek
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