Artificial intelligence will transform business even more profoundly than the internet, creating big opportunities for people with the right training, said business professor Dr. Stephen Choi. Choi hopes to open these opportunities to more students through a new Artificial Intelligence in Business certificate program.

The program is open to all Fresno State students, regardless of their major, and to non-students taking classes through the Division of Continuing and Global Education.

“I’m telling students that a tsunami will hit you and you’ve got to be prepared,” said Choi, an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences. “I’m recommending to every student, if you’ve got at least one slot in your schedule, take an AI class.”

Choi compares the coming AI disruption to the 1980s PC revolution and the 1990s internet revolution. Previous technical advances eliminated obsolete jobs like typists but created entirely new fields such as web design, podcasting and social media marketing. Choi forecasts that this history will repeat itself, with AI creating an initial dip in employment, followed by high growth in new AI-related jobs.

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