337. Purdue University President Mung Chiang on the AI revolution + demand-driven education driving impact

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Agbioscience

This weekly podcast dives into the agbioscience sector, where agriculture, life sciences innovation and cutting-edge technology converge. Agbioscience is an in-depth conversation with leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs across food, animal health. pl...

Global market intelligence firm, IDC, estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) will contribute nearly $20 trillion to the global economy by 2030 and represent nearly 4% of global GDP. Today we are joined by an AI pioneer, tech diplomat and leader of Purdue University, President Mung Chiang. We discuss:   His journey as a three-time entrepreneur turned university president and how his experience has shaped his approach at Purdue  Being on the cusps of the AI revolution, bringing new jobs to market and its elimination of old ones – and its potential to transform the physical world  Balancing AI’s opportunity for productivity versus its potential to become an adversarial threat   Connecting dots from the past to the future to develop job creation and prosperity in the state – and the critical role of agbioscience to make that happen  Purdue has a top 5 college of engineering and a top 5 college of agriculture – and President Chiang talks about the university’s differentiation to drive big outcomes using demand-driven education   President Chiang’s eye on the future of Purdue and its continued service to Indiana