The Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia is running an AI pilot program called ChatSDGand last week in the largest in the world Business Education Conference, professors, deans and administrators from other business schools were all “scrambling” to test it, Bloomberg reported.

ChatSDG assesses how well scientific articles and journals match those of the UN sustainable development goals, which include everything from ending poverty to ensuring sustainable consumption. This alignment is necessary for business schools to receive accreditation from AACSBan international organization founded in 1916. According to ReallyAACSB accreditation is one of the most rigorous and prestigious accreditations in higher education.

When a school submits research to ChatSDG, the AI ​​chatbot acts as a peer reviewer and creates a customized report that answers the question, “What is the social impact of your journal article?” It gives each magazine or article a score from zero to five, with five being the closest to the UN's goals.

If the article is not yet published, the bot includes ways for researchers to improve it. For articles that have already been published, ChatSDG suggests how the search might be used by people in the real world.

“It will revolutionize the (business school) curriculum,” Haub Dean Joseph DiAngelo told Bloomberg of ChatSDG. “It will revolutionize the way faculty members do research and it will revolutionize the way schools provide their metrics for the accreditation process.”

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ChatSDG can shorten the time it takes for business schools to obtain and maintain their AACSB certification, which has so far been awarded to only one-third of US business schools and 6% globally. Obtaining certification can take six years, according to Bloomberg, and currently requires countless hours of human evaluation and reporting.

ChatSDG “meets the AACSB accreditation requirement to show evidence of social impact,” AACSB confirmed.

Using ChatSDG to rate articles can put business schools on the fast track to accreditation and shorten the time it would take human reviewers to do the same.

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Haub School joined forces with locks Scholarly Analytics to create the AI ​​chatbot, which, according to Bloomberg, has been piloted at 10 AACSB-accredited business schools over the past 18 months.

AI has become increasingly tailored as a business tool, with an Oct Harvard Business School Study finding that consultants who used AI for certain tasks completed their work faster and produced a higher quality output.

Most business schools in the US are incorporating AI in their curriculum already, including the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.