Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence

AMBA's Ambition magazine: Issue 5 2025, Volume 83 Ambition is AMBA’s thought leadership magazine, offering regular insights into the challenges and trends that matter most in global management education

Sanjog Misra on navigating AI's moral compass—and how Chicago Booth is preparing future leaders to use this technology responsibly.

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#AIEthics #ResponsibleAI #ChicagoBooth

They shared insights on how insurers are moving from AI hype to measurable impact, drawing on examples from strategy, governance, and workforce transformation

Thank you to our co-hosts Drive Capital & ChiData, and our special partner @caai-booth.bsky.social!

Scale Changes Everything John 'JG' Chirapurath, MBA '01, shares insights from the frontlines of data & AI and scaling ideas to real-world impact.

Booth alumni John 'JG' Chirapurath, MBA '01 shares his journey in applying business and technology at scale.

Across Microsoft, SAP and startups, one idea stands out: mastering growth rather than just ownership was the key.

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The History That Suggests an AI Bubble The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without clear benchmarks.

Can the effectiveness of AI be measured objectively? Or do some things simply require the nuance and situational awareness that humans intuitively provide?

Read more about historical perceptions of #AI and how that sheds light on whether the current bubble is set to burst: time.com/7340901/ai-h...

Students Use This “AI Humanizer” To Make ChatGPT Essays Undetectable New study reveals how "AI humanizers" make ChatGPT essays undetectable.

Can you tell who wrote that article? #AI 🤖✍️

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business' Alex Imas and Brian Jabarian investigated 'AI humanizer' apps that work to conceal and soften AI-generated writing. But how effective are they?

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/larsda...

AI Is Coming for Our Most Intimate Communications. Congress Must Act | Opinion Our best approach to dealing with AI’s infiltration into our interpersonal spaces isn’t to erect barriers to stop it.

Food for thought from sociologist and assistant professor Jerel Ezell at The University of Chicago 💡

To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace

Chicago is getting new AI supercomputers at Argonne National Lab.

This isn't just faster processing, it's expanding what's possible at the frontier of AI research. From climate to healthcare breakthroughs, the future is being built here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t...

AI’s Random Responses Can Improve Decision-Making A Q&A with Chicago Booth’s Veronika Ročková about useful variation in the output of LLMs.

"Randomness is something that people are not used to coping with, but we should acknowledge it as an inherent part of our world. Generative intelligence embodies randomness—we have some random input and transform it into some random output."

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/ais-r... #econsky

Department of Energy announces partnership with Argonne, NVIDIA and Oracle to build powerful AI supercomputers Collaboration will expand nation’s AI infrastructure and accelerate scientific discovery

A new public-partnership will bring the U.S. Department of Energy's largest #AI supercomputer to the Chicagoland area to accelerate scientific discovery.

Read more about how the partnership will drive innovation at UChicago and Argonne National Laboratory:

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At futuristic meeting, AIs took the lead in producing and reviewing all the studies Organizers aim to tune AI to help accelerate science

www.science.org/content/arti...

Are AI Interviews Better? Chicago Booth’s Brian Jabarian talks about his research on AI job interviews.

Have you ever had a job interview conducted by AI?

Would you like to?

via Chicago Booth's @brianjabarian.bsky.social

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky @caai-booth.bsky.social

Opinion | Will AI destroy us? Consider the nature of intelligence. The real threats AI poses will come from the humans who wield it.

🧠💡Food for thought.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

🎉 Incredible turnout last night for Chicago Data Night!

Thank you to Assistant Prof Haifeng Xu for his fascinating talk on #ProphetArena and the future of forecasting with AI.

Special thanks to #DriveCapital for hosting and @caai-booth.bsky.social AI for sponsoring this amazing event!

AI is not just ending entry-level jobs. It's the end of the career ladder as we know it The most inspiring CEO stories come from workers who rose from entry-level positions at their firms to the top. What happens when AI takes those jobs away?

How has #AI shaped (or disrupted) traditional career pathways?

Chicago Booth's @andershumlum.bsky.social shared insights on the labor market as it shifts with the integration of AI: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/07/a...

The Incredible Power of Being Wrong With the right approach, mistakes can be the fuel for your greatest victories.

"First, people often get uncomfortable when you admit being wrong. Second, how people respond to mistakes, yours or theirs, is an excellent litmus test of character," said CAAI Faculty Director Sanjog Misra

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/incre...

Artificial Writing and Automated Detection Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

How well can #AI detect its own presence in writing?

Chicago Booth's @brianjabarian.bsky.social and @aleximas.bsky.social are uncovering the future of #AI detection tools: www.nber.org/papers/w34223

Since his time at Chicago Booth, Satyajeet Salgar (MBA ‘ 07) has embraced curiosity and serendipity, guided by a relentless drive to create meaningful products and experiences in the world of tech, media…and now #AI: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Bringing AI into Business Education: The Future of Finance A glimpse into how Booth faculty are thinking through AI's role in the classroom.

As #AI evolves and becomes integrated into daily life, our faculty are methodically thinking through ways to equip the next generation of leaders.

Get a glimpse into how Booth faculty like Bradford Levy are thinking through AI's role in the classroom: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Partnering to Advance the Future of AI in Health CAAI and UCSF UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health program to jointly host diverse, high-quality health data repository.

The future of medicine starts with access to the right data. With @ucjointcph.bsky.social and @berkeleycdss.bsky.social we're helping researchers use #AI to:

🩺 Predict sudden cardiac death
🧠 Improve TB approaches worldwide
🔬 Find patterns in medical imaging

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NSF to invest in new national network of AI-programmable cloud laboratories The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new funding opportunity that would invest up to $100 million to support a network of "programmable cloud laboratories," aimed at expanding access to…

AI-enabled research has entered a new phase of growth: www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-inv...

#AI recruiters place and retain job candidates at higher rates than people.

Chicago Booth's @brianjabarian.bsky.social is collaborating with a large global firm to take a closer look at what this means for the future of recruiting: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...?

The Incredible Power of Being Wrong With the right approach, mistakes can be the fuel for your greatest victories.

"Accept the fact that you’ll be wrong. That’s not failure; it’s feedback," said CAAI Faculty Director Sanjog Misra.

His two cents on the value of making mistakes: www.chicagobooth.edu/review/incre...

72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds | TechCrunch By "companion," the study is focused on AI chatbots that are designed for users to have more personal conversations with, not AI assistants that work as homework helpers, image generators, or voice as...

Nearly 75% of all teens aged 13 to 17 have chatted with AI—and 52% say they are regular users of #AI companions.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/7...

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Why Students Lie About Using AI Chicago Booth’s Alex Imas talks about perceptions of AI use in the classroom.

Why do students lie about using AI?

Chicago Booth's @aleximas.bsky.social talks about perceptions of AI use in the classroom.

www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca... #econsky

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Algorithms | Becker Friedman Institute SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW INTERACTIVE ↓ ¹ Kleinberg, Jon, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan (2018a) “Human decisions and machine predictions.” Quarterly Journal of Eco...

Using algorithms in pretrial release, medical testing referrals, and workplace safety inspections can yield major benefits—and ultimately pay for themselves over time. Research brief by Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Ashesh Rambachan. ow.ly/9uPk50WsSN1

New Faculty Advance AI Booth welcomes three new professors working at the intersection of AI, technology, business, and society.

As part of Chicago Booth's continued investment in #AI and its role in shaping business, markets, and institutions, three new faculty have joined our community.

Welcome Kawin Ethayarajh, Suproteem Sarkar, and Ted Sumers!

Full story: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

#MachineLearning

We're still reflecting on the many insights shared during the 2025 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium—there are so many bright minds dedicated to advancing the future of machine learning!

#MachineLearning #AI

Wishing PhD student and CAAI affiliate ‪@rafmbatista.bsky.social‬ the best of luck in his next role at Princeton University!

During his time at Booth, Batista explored ideas at the intersection of behavioral science, algorithms, and hypothesis generation: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...

Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference The MLESC conference brings together researchers working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

Registration for the 2025 Machine Learning in Economics Summer Conference (MLESC) is now open! Held this year in Chicago, MLESC brings together researchers from around the world working at the intersection of machine learning and economics.

Learn more: www.chicagobooth.edu/research/cen...