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Amid controversies, LI schools give AI the 'old college try' - Long Island Business News
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Colleges figured out something most business owners haven't yet. Start with a pilot. Not a full rollout. Hofstra didn't hand ChatGPT to 10,000 students on day one. They ran a small program first, le
Colleges figured out something most business owners haven't yet.
Start with a pilot. Not a full rollout.
Hofstra didn't hand ChatGPT to 10,000 students on day one. They ran a small program first, learned what worked, then expanded. That's the move most AI vendors will never tell you to make — because small pilots don't sell big contracts.
That $200/month tool collecting dust? It probably skipped the pilot phase entirely. Someone got excited, bought the full solution, and handed it to a team with no context and no clear problem to solve. That's not a you problem. That's a terrible implementation pattern dressed up as innovation.
The insight worth stealing from higher education: pick one repetitive task your team does every week, test one tool on just that task, and measure the time saved over 30 days. That's your pilot.
One task. One tool. Thirty days. That's how you get your first real AI win without touching anything that already works.
What's one task in your business you'd actually want off your plate this month?
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After running a small pilot program in 2025, Hofstra University will soon introduce campuswide access to ChatGPT Edu, an AI designed specifically for ...