Surely this depends on the results you're after? Sure, giving everyone a basic intro to AI isn't going to result in [m]any AI breakthrough discoveries or give you a workforce of AI researchers (though it might engage a few people in the subject that might otherwise have chosen to be quants). But it might help innoculate them against a lot of misconceptions about what the current state of AI can and can't do and encourage them to think critically about data sources and inferences that might be drawn from them.