'M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion'

[Liberty]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/mit-college-artificial-intelligence.html

 

Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence — how to prepare students not only to harness the powerful tools of A.I., but also to thoughtfully weigh its ethical and social implications. A.I. courses, conferences and joint majors have proliferated in the last few years.

 

But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking a particularly ambitious step, creating a new college backed by a planned investment of $1 billion. [...] The linchpin gift of $350 million came from Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone Group [...]

 

The goal of the college, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to “educate the bilinguals of the future.” He defines bilinguals as people in fields like biology, chemistry, politics, history and linguistics who are also skilled in the techniques of modern computing that can be applied to them.