Educating the Algorithmic Generation

Originally aired on Tuesday, January 20, 2026.

Speaker: Michael Ratajczyk, Ph.D., program director – M.S. & B.S. business intelligence and data analytics and associate professor, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a niche technological concept to a force reshaping nearly every sector of society. From education and health care to business, art and ethics, AI now plays a visible and often transformative role in how we learn, work and make decisions. This webinar explores AI’s growing influence across society, emphasizing how today’s students are both witnesses and active participants in this technological shift. AI represents one of the most profound technological shifts of our time, simultaneously inspiring innovation, disrupting norms and challenging our understanding of human creativity and knowledge. This webinar explores the good, the bad and the ugly of generative AI (GenAI) through the lens of education and society.