Artificial Intelligence in Universities

Andrey Scherbenok, SAS Director recently participated in a press conference on the use of AI in higher education and the work of the newly established R&D Center for AI-Based Educational Solutions at SAS, UTMN.

The Center is focused on developing AI personas for courses to help address the shortage of highly qualified faculty in Russia.

One notable achievement is the 48-hour intensive “Human Behavioral Biology” course, launched on September 9, 2024, for BA students at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. The course features a customized AI persona, taking the place of a conventional professor, and a mediator who oversees the learning process. Developed by the Center's engineers with input from the SKOLKOVO team, the AI operates as a chatbot. It not only responds to students' questions on course topics but also prompts students with questions related to the course material.

The mediator uses a range of pedagogical techniques to facilitate interactions between students and the AI, as well as among the students themselves. This approach maintains the human high contact and fosters critical thinking skills, even with the active use of AI technologies.

A recording of the discussion is available in the TASS Press Center group.