Join us for the 2025 Zacher Lecture in the Humanities featuring artist Stephanie Dinkins, who will present The Stories We Tell Our Machines: Data Narratives and Algorithmic Futures. Dinkins’ work sits at the intersection of art, community knowledge, and artificial intelligence. Through projects like If We Don’t, Who Will? and Data Trust, she challenges dominant data practices and reimagines AI systems as spaces of care, cultural specificity, and community agency. Her talk will explore how the narratives we encode into machine learning systems shape the world we create—highlighting both the risks of extractive data practices and the potential for more equitable and empathetic AI. A reception will follow.
Date: Nov. 6, 4–6 p.m. (Reception: 5:30–6 p.m.)
Location: Faculty Club, Colleagues Room
Cost: Free and open to the public (RSVPs requested)
Join us for the AI Fluency Forum at the Ohio Union, where faculty will showcase real-world teaching and research applications of AI along with discussions on responsibility, fluency planning, and the upcoming AI(x) Hub. The event is open to all who teach and support instruction at Ohio State, including faculty, graduate teaching associates, postdocs and staff.
Date: Nov. 12, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Ohio Union Performance Hall
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We know AI is impacting the workplace, but it's not always clear how. To prepare our students for the post-AI workplace, we need to understand these changes. Business & Professional Writing in English (sponsored by the Kitty O. Locker fund) and the Global Arts + Humanities Center, will host a virtual panel featuring 3 experts on AI in the workplace. They will answer questions about how AI is impacting work, where to get good info on the constantly-updated offerings of AI, and the ethical implications of using it. This is a great opportunity for instructors to ask questions of real-world practitioners in AI in traditional business & nonprofit settings.
Date: Nov 12, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Fisher College of Business Executive Education offers several programs focused on artificial intelligence. These programs address the capabilities of artificial intelligence, specific processes that can be optimized with AI, and how to responsibly implement it across functions at your organization.
Date: Several programs are offered on an ongoing basis. Cost varies.
If you are hosting an AI event that is open to a broad audience, you can request inclusion on this site by sending a message to ai@osu.edu.
The Role of AI in Learning and Development: Understanding ChatGPT – A Quick Reference: introduces you to the power of ChatGPT and how it can help streamline your daily work tasks.
The Center for Software Innovation offers offers ongoing groups like Weekly Dig Ins and AI Tinkerers Columbus. The center also hosts the annual Construct I/O: The Builder’s Summit developer conference.
The Data Management team within OTDI has created resources around AI for data analysts at the university. There is also a video on AI functionality in PowerBI and Tableau. Both are in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC), so you must log in to access these links.
Getting Started with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Considerations and Strategies: provides an overall description of how Copilot and other AI programs work; strategies for designing instruction with AI; and transparently discussion about AI use in a course and academic integrity. Visit Drake Institute upcoming events to see upcoming AI workshops.
Cybersecurity Days 2023: Digital Security and Trust leaders discuss the role AI plays in cybersecurity for higher education. (Recorded Oct. 25, 2023)
Teaching and Learning Workshops: University Libraries offers a variety of recorded webinars as well as in-person workshops on a regular basis. Past AI workshops have included Teaching with AI: Concerns and Opportunities and Artificial Intelligence and Teaching and Information Literacy Concerns and Opportunities.
Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Lab (AIMS): AIMS lab brings industry professionals and academia together to study and develop manufacturing systems that work with, and are controlled by, different types of artificial intelligence.
Democratizing AI: Outlines a study that will build the next generation of Cyberinfrastructure to render Artificial Intelligence (AI) more accessible to everyone and drive its further democratization
Advancing Artificial Intelligence: Brief overview of how Ohio State is driving the future of artificial intelligence (AI) research, development and discovery to improve people’s lives today and build a brighter future
While we have tried to include as many Ohio State AI resources as possible, if you have additional resources that you’d like us to add, contact us at ai@osu.edu.