Artificial Intelligence

Wright State University in Dayton is creating a new curriculum to help rural students understand artificial intelligence.

Joanna Stern's experiment is chronicled in the new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI To Do (Almost) Everything.

Joanna Stern's experiment is chronicled in the new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI To Do (Almost) Everything.

While a four-year degree focuses on critical thinking, and trade schools emphasize essential manual expertise, the rapid advancement of AI now threatens to automate roles in both sectors.

As AI turns central Ohio into a data center hub, experts and employees discuss its role as a "force multiplier" in existing jobs, alongside growing concerns over global job automation and the future of work.

Ohio State University professor Jeff Dotson said that people should be familiar with artificial intelligence and how those tools can make them stand out as employees.

About 70% of college students see AI as a threat to their job prospects, according to a 2025 poll by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, while recent Gallup polling finds U.S. workers are increasingly concerned about being replaced by new technologies.

Ohio's largest school district has been reviewing AI use policies for almost a year. The policy allows teachers to decide if students can use AI on an assignment.

The Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation is backing bipartisan legislation that would impose penalties on AI models that suggest self-harm or hurting another person.

Columbus computer scientist Dean Allemang got into artificial intelligence in the late 1980s to help people become more intelligent. AI never quite fulfilled that role, but Allemang said that today it is doing something else impressive: collaborating with internet users.