Inside UPenn’s new Artificial Intelligence degree program debuting fall 2024 [Video]

UNIVERSITY CITY – Students at the University of Pennsylvania will soon be able to earn a degree in artificial intelligence.

They are the first Ivy League school to offer the new major through their School of Engineering.

“We have been slowly building AI into a lot of our curriculum, so most of the courses that we’re teaching are already in existence,” said Robert Ghrist, Undergraduate Dean of Penn Engineering.

In a news release, the university said, “The rapid rise of generative AI is transforming virtually every aspect of life: health, energy, transportation, robotics, computer vision, commerce, learning, and even national security. This produces an urgent need for innovative, leading-edge AI engineers who understand the principles of AI and how to apply them in a responsible and ethical way.”

Students will eventually be able to build out concentrations, including the use of AI in robotics, but they will start with core math and computer classes, and a class on the ethics …