University of Worcester to launch module aimed at helping students to develop their understanding of AI
Business and computing students at the University of Worcester will be educated in the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) from September 2026
The University of Worcester is to start teaching its business and computing students how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used safely and correctly through a new module.
From September, all undergraduate students on courses from accounting and finance to business studies, digital marketing, cyber security will learn alongside those other relevant disciplines to develop their understanding of the capabilities and limits of AI.
It's been designed by leaders at Worcester Business School, which is home to the university’s department of computing.
On the setting up of the module, senior lecturer in computing at the university Andrew Robinson said: "It's really important for anybody going into work in the future to understand really how AI works, what it's good at, what it isn't good at, and that's what we're trying to get across in this new module.
"One of the issues we have in education at the moment is that students will get artificial intelligence to write their essays for them, and we're in a future where people are going to be using AI to write things for them, but we need to get understanding in there too.
"If you come out of university just knowing how to get an AI to write things, you are replaceable by that AI, if you have the understanding behind things, if you can correct the AI when it's wrong. If you understand the things that the AI is likely to get wrong and prepare yourself for those, that's the knowledge that we think is key to students."
Course leader for undergraduate business management and marketing, Rowena Simmons, added: "AI is used in workplaces, so we’ll be looking at a wide range of real-world case studies.
"Students will learn how to tell if AI is hallucinating, a term for when AI generates information that sounds plausible, but is not correct, and when it’s giving poor quality results.
"The module is designed to ensure what they learn feels relevant and connected to their future careers.”