Simon Fraser University’s newest class will have an unpaid expert on hand to answer questions about her field. And she’s only three months old.

“She” is anthropomorphizing the issue, though. Kia is an artificial intelligence persona developed by SFU’s iViz research lab, headed by professor Steve DiPaola.

And Kia, in what’s believed to be a world first, will be assisting DiPaola in teaching his new course: IAT 111: Artificial Intelligence Today & Tomorrow.

The class, which is open to any students, is an explainer of sorts. Its aim is to battle misinformation about AI and give students an idea of how to adapt it in their future fields.

“There’s so many issues going on that I really needed to be teaching this to a much more significant audience,” said DiPaola. “There’s such disinformation

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