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This podcast series explores the future of work, leadership, and innovation through conversations with Fairfield University alumni and industry leaders across a wide range of fields. Each episode examines how industries are evolving in response to new technologies, shifting workplace demands, global challenges, and how those changes affect today’s students.
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Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026
46 min
How will artificial intelligence reshape legal work, financial regulation, and the skills students need for evolving careers? In the first episode of the Dean’s Future Of series, Dean Richard Greenwald joins Fairfield alumnus Jerry Buckley ’66 and a Fairfield sociology faculty member to explore the opportunities and risks created by generative AI.
Their conversation examines AI-assisted legal research, human oversight, trusted regulatory databases, access to legal services, and new approaches to consumer financial protection. The speakers also reflect on the lasting value of a Jesuit liberal arts education including critical inquiry, compassion, creativity, and the ability to ask better questions as technology changes the answers. Watch to learn how Fairfield prepares students to navigate emerging technologies with judgment, adaptability, and purpose.