Learn about the impact of AI on knowledge work. Applications for our AI@Work course are now open!

Join the AI@Work elective course in the first block of the 2025–2026 academic year to deepen your knowledge and understand the impact of AI on knowledge work.

Learn how to effectively and responsibly develop, deploy, and manage AI in organizations.

Topics of this course

• Organizational dynamics around AI
• Knowing by experts VS knowing by data
• Developing AI that works
• Expertise and learning with(out) algorithms
• Ethical and political issues in AI
• If AI is organizing work, who is organizing AI?

Sessions will be taught by research fellow Marleen Huysman, research fellow Anastasia Sergeeva, Tomislav Karacic, research fellow Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi, Ella Hafermalz, and Stella Kyratz. All teachers are connected to the KIN Center for Digital Innovation, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The AI@Work course will teach you how to: 

• reflect on the potential impact of AI solutions on (knowledge) work and recommend useful frameworks for managing AI in practice; 
• recognize socio-technical challenges when developing and implementing AI in organizations;
• explain and use relevant theories and concepts from the fields of management, organization, and information systems; 
• articulate the relevance of the problem, theories, and contribution in a research proposal;
• critically reflect on literature and engage in meaningful discussions with peers in a reading group setting.

Schedule

The course includes six sessions of three hours per week and runs from Friday, September 5 to Friday, October 10, at Tinbergen Institute's campus at the Zuidas in Amsterdam. The course is concluded with an examination in the form of a final essay. This elective is part of Tinbergen Institute's two-year Research Master Business Data Science.

Who Should Apply?

Registration for external participants and (external) PhD students has now opened for academic year 2025-2026. The deadline for registration is three weeks before the start of the course (August 10, 2025). Apply here!

More Elective Courses

Explore full list of elective courses in Business Data Science. Course descriptions for 2025-2026 will be available at the end of July. Descriptions from current academic year can be found here (url remains unchanged): businessdatascience.nl/courses