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Artificial Intelligence / May 2025
MIT researchers challenge assumptions on AI’s role in the workplace, revealing that while AI significantly boosts lower-skilled workers, it may inadvertently hinder top performers by fostering complacency (Forbes, 2025). As workers grapple with their fear of being replaced by AI, their findings urge business leaders and educators to rethink how AI reshapes expertise, ensuring future professionals harness its potential without sacrificing deep knowledge.
For May 2025, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine AI's impact on business professionals.
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Surviving and thriving in the age of AI : a handbook for digital leaders
Offers a framework for understanding the issues and implications of AI for individuals and organizations in this time of significant digital disruption.
Political economy of artificial intelligence
This book explores how artificial intelligence, the platform economy, and big data will impact economic development and societal change.
Whoosh Goes the Market
A vivid, fast-paced inside look at financial markets, the people who work on them, and how technology is changing their world (and ours).
ChatGPT And AI For Accountants
Discover AI's role in modern accounting, from audits to corporate governance Use ChatGPT to streamline your accounting tasks with practical hands-on techniques.
Data Ethics Management
Explains how leading business organizations attempt to achieve the responsible and ethical use of AI and other advanced information technologies.
AI unexplainable, unpredictable, uncontrollable.
Written by one of the founders of the field of AI safety, this book addresses the nature of intelligence, consciousness, values and knowledge.
The Predictive Edge
An engaging and insightful new take on how to use large language models (LLMs) to find new investment opportunities and make better trading decisions.
Beyond AI : ChatGPT, Web3, and the business landscape of tomorrow
This book explores the transformative potential of ChatGPT, Web3, and their impact on productivity and various industries.
The Secrets of AI Value Creation
Presents a comprehensive framework to explore the value drivers and challenges you might face throughout your AI journey.
AI-Driven Project Management
An insightful collection of strategies for automating the administration and management of projects.
Artificial Intelligence for Business Creativity
Explores the interplay between micro-level individual creativity and macro-level organizational innovation through the lens of AI.
Artificial Intelligence in Forecasting
The software that runs AI forecasting models can analyze past data and make better prediction about future trends with higher accuracy and confidence.
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AI Accountability: Build Responsible and Transparent SystemsIn this nontechnical, conceptually oriented 2-hour course, Barton Poulson digs into the hazards of AI, offering potential solutions to key concerns, explores the ethical issues posed by AI, and goes over social concerns and safety challenges for AI.
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What is Generative AIIn this 1-hour course, generative AI expert Pinar Seyhan Demirdag covers the basics of generative AI, with topics including what it is, how it works, how to create your own content, different types of models, future predictions, and ethical implications.
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Responsible AI: Principles and Practical ApplicationsIn this course, Tsu-Jae Liu—the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley—Brandie Nonnecke, and Jill Finlayson clearly explain the need for responsible AI, with examples of practical applications.
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AI Essentials for MarketersWhether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting out, this learning path will help you leverage AI for marketing success. Develop a comprehensive plan to integrate AI into your campaigns and explore its potential for personalization and automation.
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Build AI Aptitude as a New ManagerLearn the skills you need to succeed as a new manager, including how to adopt a digital mindset, contextualize the impact of AI, discuss the principles of responsible AI, and boost productivity with generative AI tools.
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Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedInDiscover the skills needed to apply generative AI in your career. Learn the core concepts of artificial intelligence and generative AI functionality.
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Masterpath in Analytics Leadership for ExecutivesThis learning path teaches executives and data analytics leaders essential skills in predictive modeling, human-in-the-loop machine learning, AutoML, ROI estimation, and data annotation.
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Understanding AI for Business ProfessionalsThis learning path will help you understand the changes posed by artificial intelligence and position yourself for success. Boost your AI literacy, discover key ways generative AI will streamline workflows, and explore ethical considerations.
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Using Generative AI in Supply ChainsIn this course, Daniel Stanton explains how to use generative AI in the supply chain to automate, accelerate, and improve tasks and processes. He gives examples of how to use gen AI, from translating jargon and explaining Incoterms, to crafting explanations for customers and colleagues and writing code.
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The Future of AI for Finance and AccountingThis course helps professionals and business leaders identify, assess, and prepare to use artificial intelligence (AI) in accounting and finance. Finance expert and futurist Jason Schenker shares insights into the significant potential for how AI technologies impact finance and accounting.
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