Ole Miss Business Club Discusses AI in the Workplace

The meeting focused on AI for productivity, creativity and career preparation. Students learned how AI can help organize information, create first drafts and compare different options. However, people should still make the final decisions on their own, using their own judgement.

Julianna Perez, a senior and BIAS major from Birmingham, Alabama, who also serves as director of networking and outreach for the club, spoke about how students can use AI to make certain tasks easier without giving up control of their work and still be ethical. 

“Let AI handle the first pass,” she said. “You still own the thinking, decisions and final results.”

Students are still responsible for reviewing what the AI produces, checking whether the information is correct and making the final decision. The presentation emphasized that AI should make work easier without replacing a student’s own thought process and decision making.

Additionally, Perez discussed how jobs may change as AI continues to develop. The presentation demonstrated that some tasks and roles may become automated, while others will grow or be redesigned. Communication, creativity, and decisiveness will remain important skills.

Students also used the opportunity to use AI during the meeting. Exploring sites such as ChatGPT and Gemini and learning how to create an AI assistant that could help them with all sorts of tasks, such as studying, careers, clubs, etc.

Despite this information, however, while AI can make certain tasks easier, Perez emphasized that students still shouldn’t allow it to do all of their thinking.

“AI should expand what you can do, not replace your ability to think,” she said.

The meeting ended by encouraging students to continue exploring AI and use it ethically, protecting private information and taking responsibility for their own work.