A Transformative Future with AI

"Dr. Michael L. Torrence has authored a collection of essays on artificial intelligence that braid higher education, workforce, and an array of disciplines together. The way he sees connections is organizationally inspiring and creates spaces for necessary conversations. This is what innovative and transformational leadership from the executive level looks like in the 21st century" Dr. Robbie Melton, Provost, Tenured Education Faculty, and Executive Director of the Tennessee State University SMART Technology Center, Nashville, TN

"Dr. Torrence's examines the utilization of AI across an array of fields and domains which is a credit to him as a polymath who seeks solutions through AI's ethical use. The opportunity for creatively blending and melting worlds together is absolutely occurring. This collection of essays affords conversation to start and evolve" Dr. Barry Spriggs, Provost, Gillette College, WY

"Dr. Torrence has explored strategic integration of AI in learning environments, emphasizing how its use can enhance skills gaps. This work critically examines the evolution of digital credentials, including micro-credentials, as a pathway to more personalized and relevant learning and training experiences for eery learner, earner, owner, and trainee. Dr. Torrence is a creative and innovative powerhouse" Noah Geisell, Founder of BADGE Summit, University of Colorado at Boulder

"Dr. Torrence has connected disparate and varied topics around one of our more evolutionary developments in this century. This kind of thinking and expression is bold. We need to dig further into these conversations and expound of the ethical implications and the magic of connecting human development within our age of compute and machines. Integration happened, now he explores our potentially framing of humans and emergent technology" Dr. Carl Owens, Professor Emeritus, Tennessee Technological University, and Apple Distinguished Educator

"Dr. Torrence's ability to tinker with the abstraction of the future and link current trends is exceptional. He has continued to tie the under explored and the policy and governance of teaching, innovation, learning, and training for communities that are served. A good read that is digestible and in many ways applicable" Dr. Joe Sallustio, Founder and Co-Host of The EdUp Experience and Best -Selling author of Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education - Featured in FORBES

"Mobility in this fast-paced age of development is not the same as portability. The ability to envision, develop, assess, and apply is a super power, and this is where Dr. Torrence enables the varied points of entry of AI, work, and communities. In his work we see no beginning, middle, or end, simply a continuum. Fascinating ..." Taylor Kendall, Founder of ETHDenver and President of the Learning Economy Foundation