FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno State students got a sensation of the nonrecreational satellite Thursday.
The assemblage hosted TASTE 2025: a mentorship lawsuit connecting students with manufacture professionals. TASTE stands for Take a Student to Lunch, and it focuses connected those successful connection fields.
This year, 81 mentors paired with 81 students to springiness them nonrecreational proposal and encouragement.

Fresno State Junior Isabella Cawley connected with Central Unified School District Public Information Officer Johnathon Burrows.
Members of KSEE24/CBS47 adjacent got to mentor a fewer students.

Burrows says the extremity is to springiness them “the accidental to interact with us, america physique that narration and archer them astir the enactment that we do, conscionable truthful that they get different representation of folks who are moving successful communications successful the Central Valley.”
The lawsuit was not lone for the students’ benefit.
AI Strategist Tori Terhune crippled a presumption connected harnessing AI successful the nonrecreational world. She says it tin assistance to constitute amended emails, bash much thorough probe and velocity up regular tasks.
However, she says you volition lone get retired of AI what you enactment in.
“The much you dainty AI similar a human, the much quality responses you're going to get,” Terhune said.
She says radical shouldn’t dainty bundle similar ChatGPT arsenic the end-all be-all of knowledge. Instead, she says radical should beryllium connected AI arsenic they would a squirrel.
“A batch of radical are truly acrophobic that AI is going to travel successful similar instrumentality your occupation oregon marque you, you know, obsolete. But instead, what I truly promote radical to deliberation astir AI arsenic conscionable a tool,” Terhune said.
She says thing beats quality ability, but she thinks quality quality volition lone summation done harnessing AI.
“I deliberation she's right. Like, this technology, this worldly is ne'er going to spell away. So it volition lone payment america if we larn astir it and tin tailor it to usage it amended for us,” Cawley said.