CIB Hosts Co-AI Workshop for Faculty

Collaborative AI is the signature initiative of Tepper's new strategic plan.

Tepper’s Center for Intelligent Business hosted a workshop for faculty members on using genAI in routine academic activities. The session was facilitated by Prasad Chalsani, adjunct professor of AI, and Bambi Brewer, AI Project Engineer, both Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science alumni who have recently begun using their AI expertise to support Tepper’s AI initiatives. 

Chalsani led faculty through using LLMs for common tasks, such as revising blocks of text for clarity and concision, summarizing documents or web content, finding and synthesizing new research studies, creating system prompts for customized chats on topics of interest, and generating instructional material like quizzes. 

The session not only introduced faculty to relevant use cases but also a variety of LLM tools. Aside from showcasing increasingly familiar tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini, Chalsani also explained how faculty can use tools like NotebookLLM, Google Illuminate, Open Scholar, and Consensus to support their research efforts. 

Additionally, faculty discussed ways that these tools might affect students’ learning, including concerns about overreliance on LLM assistance that might impair critical thinking and fundamental skillbuilding. Many agreed that beginning learners, in particular, are negatively impacted by overreliance and emphasized the need for balancing LLMs with more established educational practice. 

This workshop is part of the CIB’s collaborative AI (CoAI) initiative, which aims to transform business education by integrating generative AI, traditional analytics, and data with human collaboration. For more on CoAI and the CIB, visit https://www.cmu.edu/intelligentbusiness/education/index.html