AI Institute

About the AI Institute

Founded in 1986, the Intelligent Computer Systems Research Institute (AI Institute) approaches its fortieth anniversary at the University of Miami Business School. Its subject is the human side of artificial intelligence in organizations: how leaders decide with it, how organizations adapt around it, how professionals work alongside it, and how it is governed.

How artificial intelligence augments, displaces, or reshapes human work is a management question. How organizations govern it responsibly is a leadership question. How the next generation is prepared to work alongside it is a question of values. Business schools are built for questions of that kind. The Institute brings the school's research strength in technology and organizations to bear on them.

The Institute takes a sociotechnical and design-oriented view of artificial intelligence in organizations, applied to adoption, transformation, governance, and impact. Its commitments are augmentation over automation, agency over abdication, and human judgment at the center.

• Conducts and publishes research on artificial intelligence in business and management
• Connects that research to practice through long-term partnerships with industry
• Provides education in artificial intelligence for corporate boards, executives, and business leaders
• Supports doctoral students and early-career faculty working on artificial intelligence and
  organizations
• Advises businesses, government bodies, and non-profit organizations on the adoption and
  governance of intelligent systems
• Hosts an annual conference, a speaker series, and workshops open to the wider community

Three Pillars

The Institute works through research, teaching, and industry engagement. Researchruns across five areas, each with a named faculty lead, from scaling intelligence inorganizations to the ethics of systems and human interaction. Teaching reachesboards and senior leaders through executive education, and doctoral, graduate, andundergraduate students through programs that put them inside real organizationalproblems. Industry engagement is built on long-term partnerships rather than one-offprojects, and the Institute is forming an Industry Advisory Board to keep that workgrounded in the questions organizations are confronting.

Forty Years at This Intersection

David Bendel Hertz founded the Institute in 1986, when intelligent computer systemswas the term of the day for artificial intelligence. The questions have changed and thesubject has not. The Institute is not a computer science laboratory. It is a businessschool institute, and it has been studying how organizations work with intelligentsystems for forty years.

Our Faculty

Faculty from across the University of Miami Business School work through theInstitute, in artificial intelligence, digital platforms, the future of work, explainablemachine learning, neuroscience of technology use, and the law and ethics of intelligentsystems.