Ram Talks – Artificial Collaborative Intelligence: How AI Can Help Humans Be Better Teammates

Bring your curiosity and energy, grab a cold one, and spend Wednesday happy hour with Ram Talks. Explore, learn, and create with CSU experts downtown at the new Fort Collins Welcome Center!

Ram Talks are a mashup of CSU expertise and active community conversation, unleashing the creative insights and eye-opening shakeup that comes from taking a fresh look at the world around us.

Nikhil Krishnaswamy – Assistant Professor

The rise of generative AI, exemplified by large language models (LLMs), has kickstarted a rapid integration of AI systems into our personal lives, businesses, education, and even government. However, careless users of AI may uncritically accept what the system tells them, with consequences that may range from inconvenient to catastrophic. Dr. Krishnaswamy advocates a better approach to AI adoption: human-AI collaboration where AI plays a unique role in supporting teams. Rather than replacing human judgment, AI can enhance teamwork by helping to productively reconcile conflicting views and avoid groupthink by intervening to make teams deliberate and reconsider available evidence at strategic moments. This talk will explore a vision for AI’s role in collaborative intelligence that helps humans’ reason better together.