- Technology is a tool.

It can be used for good or bad.

Plenty of examples where technology has improved the quality of our lives.

I would say social media is an example where it has probably diminished the quality of our life overall.

So the same will be true of AI as it grows in importance.

We're thinking more and more at the university about how do we expose our students to meaningful AI skills so they're prepared for the workplace but not become so reliant on AI that it does away with some of the basics that we grew up with, like reading books and absorbing information in different forms that don't necessarily involve technology, that deeper level of thinking and learning.

So we want to expose students to AI skills.

We want to try to achieve some operational efficiencies in that regard, simplify our processes to the benefit of our students, and also protect our research and our student data.

Because here's an example of where AI will not be a positive.

The bad guys are using AI to turbocharge cyber security efforts and hack people's data in a way using these AI tools.

And it's alarming.

So as the bad guys arm up in that way, we've got to protect more effectively.