♪♪
Intel chose Maricopa Community College District,
to go ahead and be the first in the United States to use their curriculum for AI.
AI can be used from fashion to finance.
It's the combining of human capabilities with machine capabilities.
Any industry will be utilizing AI.
So this program is a joint effort between us, Maricopa Community College District,
Chandler-Gilbert, and Estrella Mountain.
It's a joint effort to offer the first associate degree in the nation, in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
We're teaching what's relevant, we're teaching the newest technologies.
So the opportunity to provide this for our students will be really good for the District,
for Maricopa County, and for the State of Arizona.
What does the industry need?
Ok,
and so when we're partnering with Intel we know industries is looking for
and what they require for their employees.
They're gonna have the right skills that are needed.
It's driven by the industry, it's what the industry and faculty together in developing
the course, developing the program
The one thing Maricopa Community Colleges is doing is just jumping head in and saying hey
what do we need to get this done, how are we gonna make this successful for our students?
So in Arizona we a very large amount of high tech companies that directly use artificial intelligence.
And some of those are Intel, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Microchip,
I mean, that's just to name a few.
It's going to make a societal impact as well when students start reaching out to the community,
and working on various projects.
The big advantage I see in having the program here at our level is that the Maricopa Community Colleges
is a very diverse place and one of the big risks in AI is that if all the work is done from just one particular
perspective that the AI can become biased, just as people can become biased.  So it's really important
to have, you know, a diversity of voices participating in this.
So to be able to prepare students and the workforce to meet this need, it's just very
exciting to be a part of that.
Supporting the faculty to have the tools and the resources to move to the next level of innovation,
this is how we make it happen at Maricopa.
♪♪
