Horgan Seminar Blog

Jack Caputo 2 May 2026 HST401 I pledge my Honor that I have abided by the Stevens Honor System I Know What You're Thinking... Regular folks have been harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), mostly in the form of large-language models (LLMs), since it took over the world a few years ago. People are being fired and replaced with AI, students are outsourcing all their work to it, and AI slop has flowed into every crevice of the Internet. People have formed an idea of what AI can do, or perhaps all it can do. Of course, machine learning algorithms were implemented years before the all-powerful LLMs that have come to dominate the market and cultural consciousness. Smaller machine learning models were created to be able to pick out patterns in data more reliably than humans or traditional data analysis methods, or perhaps patterns they couldn’t see at all. The field has matured at astounding rates – but what’s next? Well, what if I told you that this same underlying technol...

  Connor Hsuan Professor Horgan HST 401 25 April 2026 I pledge my honor that I have abided by the Stevens Honor System. The Job Market Looks Great for Robots For New Grads, Not So Much The biggest problem on any student's mind currently in college is what their future employment will look like. Many new grads have struggled to find a job out of college and being even one year out of college without any employment is almost a death sentence for your career. These difficulties are only increased even further with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence and the diversion of company resources from the creation of new jobs. In 2025, only 181,000 jobs were added to the United States labor market, which is a massive decrease from the 1.46 million jobs added in 2024. This makes 2025 the worst year for jobs since 2020, which was famously the year that the pandemic started. While hiring has increased recently, with 130,000 jobs created in January, unemployment still sits at 4.3%, which...