AI Summit Held For Tennessee's Colleges

The College System of Tennessee recently joined leaders from across Tennessee for the inaugural Artificial Intelligence Tennessee Summit. The event was held at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, featured members of the state's AI Advisory Council, SCORE, Vanderbilt University, the University of Memphis, Oak Ridge National Lab, the College System and other participants. It explored how the state can continue to lead the national AI race.

AI fluency is rapidly becoming the next big foundational skill required to maintain Tennessee's economic edge, helping our state remain the national standard for workforce development. 

Tennessee's community and technical colleges use a two-pronged approach in this area: developing new and expanding existing programs that equip students to build a skill set in designing and building AI technologies, while also preparing the vast majority of the workforce to use AI across almost every profession. 

Through the AI Learning Collaborative, the College Systems are intentionally integrating AI into courses to teach students about its use, including by designing assessments to reduce over-reliance on this tool. 

To date, more than 1,800 faculty from our colleges and the locally governed universities have participated in some form of AI training offered by the College System.