AI Literacy Series Ep. 15: Dr. Chris Howard, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Arizona State University

About this episode

Miriam Vogel interviews Dr. Chris Howard about AI literacy and its impact on education at Arizona State University.

On this episode of In AI We Trust? , EqualAI President and CEO Miriam Vogel sat down for a conversation with Dr. Chris Howard, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Arizona State University (ASU). They reflected on EqualAI’s recent AI Literacy Initiative event with ASU in Scottsdale, Arizona, featuring ASU President Michael Crow, Taylor Stockton, CIO of DOL, ASU Chief Information Officer Lev Gonick, Dean of ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Battinto Batts, and Dean of ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Carole Basile, among other notable speakers. Dr. Howard and Miriam Vogel dove into ASU leadership on AI and education, including how ASU is using AI to help build human capacity and create impact for students and learners as they prepare to enter the workforce, and how AI fits in with ASU’s charter statement.

People in this episode

Host: Miriam Vogel

Guest: Dr. Chris Howard

Topics covered

• AI literacy
• education
• Arizona State University
• workforce development
• human capacity
• leadership in AI

Keywords

• AI literacy
• Arizona State University
• Miriam Vogel
• Dr. Chris Howard
• education
• workforce
• human capacity
• EqualAI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arizona State University, EqualAI

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