The seeds of school-wide innovation are so often planted by our children, and Beit AI is no exception.  It was from conversations with and observations of our students that we first felt the seismic shift of AI, and it was from our students that we understood early on that we had two distinct choices when it came to generative AI: We could embrace it or we could resist it. Most schools, at the time, were doing the latter.

In a recent letter to his community, the President of the University of Chicago Paul Alivisatos wrote that the university has a “duty of care” to its students and employees when it comes to artificial intelligence: ”to ensure that the education offered to you is responsive to these technological developments by teaching you how to think with machines, how to think without them, and how to think about them.”