Courses will cover topics including mathematics, computing, machine learning, applications of AI, and large-scale data sets, with the goal of preparing students to influence policies and fill jobs that don't yet exist. In the five years since Chris Callison-Burch has been teaching an artificial intelligence class at the University of Pennsylvania, his class has grown from around 100 to 400 students in person and another 200 joining remotely, he said. "On campus, we fill the biggest lecture hall available, which seats 400. I can't grow bigger than that unless we move to the sports stadium," said Callison-Burch, an associate professor at Penn Engineering. Starting next spring, the University of Pennsylvania will expand its AI course offering with a new online master's degree program focused on AI.
