Provost Alec Gallimore announced a new Provost’s Initiative centered around artificial intelligence in a May 23 Duke Today press release, aiming to join a broader conversation about both the opportunities AI presents and the challenges that its development might bring.
The initiative contains four main pillars — Life with AI, Trustworthy and Responsible AI, Sustainability in AI and Advancing Discovery with AI — with each having dedicated advisory groups. These groups are tasked with completing a report by the end of the fall semester to provide an overarching steering committee with recommendations for AI usage at the University.
“At Duke, we are not just consumers of AI. We are architects of AI,” said Yakut Gazi, vice provost for learning innovation and digital education, one of three administrators tapped to lead the new initiative. She added that Duke’s interdisciplinary strength uniquely positions the University to contribute not only to technical developments in AI, but also to exploring its human and environmental impacts…