At the University of Texas, where I’m senior vice provost of academic affairs, our credo (coined by the head of our Office of Academic Technology, Julie Schell) is to be AI Forward and AI Responsible. In service of this, over the past few years, we launched a homegrown AI tutoring platform (UT Sage), launched a second platform to enable faculty, staff, and students to engage with building AI tools (UT Spark), provided a license for Copilot for everyone at UT, and engaged a working group called Good Systems focused on the ethical implications of AI models.

Although all of the conversation about AI makes it seem like it’s taken over the world, it hasn’t. Although it appears to be growing in popularity, there’s no shame in having waited to see how the tech matures and the hype shakes out. Bu

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