College Board Forum 2024: The impact of AI on education

Yustina Saleh, Ph.D., Burning Glass Institute, joined WorkingNation to share her thoughts on generative AI-informed student pathways
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Generative AI could have a profound impact on education and a student’s chosen career pathway, and that’s why it’s important for educators to help guide a student through the use of the technology, says Yustina Saleh, Ph.D., managing director of innovation solutions at the Burning Glass Institute.

Saleh joined WorkingNation’s editor-in-chief Ramona Schindelheim for WorkingNation Overheard at College Board Forum 2024 in Austin, Texas.

“Generative AI is sort of a black box that is not yet customized to people’s needs. There aren’t yet guardrails on what goes in and what goes out,” warns Saleh. “In that sense, for a student, especially if they don’t have guidance on how to use the information, it can be really, really problematic.”

Saleh continues, “There are some innovations right now that set those guardrails. There’s a lot in terms of ‘is it representing a wide enough source of information? Is it unbiased? What are the systemic biases that we are seeing?'”

“So, while there could be a lot of benefits, it also can cause harm without that. What do we do as a community of educators, as workforce developers to get the benefits but remove the weeds is going to be really, really critical.”

She notes, “Generative AI will be transforming jobs at a rate that is unprecedented. If we look at the job market today, probably 6% or less would be insulated completely from generative AI. The rest will be either impacted or highly impacted.”

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Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.