The Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation will host its first Grand Challenge sessions during the 2023-2024 Thought Into Action Kickoff Weekend. This event - The Implications of AI on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: New Business Opportunities and New Ways of Working - is open to anyone from the Colgate community and will be livestreamed.

Generative AI’s underlying science isn’t new. But recent applications have caught the imagination of entrepreneurs in industries from healthcare to agriculture.

AI is now disrupting jobs and workflows in unprecedented ways, suggesting it must be carefully evaluated — both for its own opportunities and its capacity to help entrepreneurs build new businesses.

This is generative AI as a force multiplier, a time and money saver. While many technologies have been overhyped in recent years, the profound implications of generative AI might not yet be fully appreciated.

At the same time, generative AI suffers from a number of built-in biases and limitations. Recently, industry leaders have even been sounding the alarm about potentially existential threats posed by this revolutionary technology. Our panel will strive to address both the upside and downside of generative AI, with particular attention to the implications it has for entrepreneurship and innovation.

Enjoy an interactive discussion with an expert panel, moderated by Entrepreneur in Residence Travis Millman.

Panelists:

• Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, assistant professor, film and media studies
• Forrest Davis, assistant professor of computer science
• Nick Diana, assistant professor of computer science
• Gaurav Ragtah ’13, CEO and co-founder, CatalyzeX