At the University of Utah, we are embracing artificial intelligence not as a distant future, but as a practical, everyday partner in improving how we work. Across campus, teams are finding ways to use AI to reduce administrative overhead, strengthen decision-making, and create more connected, responsive systems.
Discover how the University of Utah is using artificial intelligence to help students make more confident academic and career decisions. Associate Professor Jim Agutter introduces UGuide, an AI-powered advising tool that personalizes major exploration, connects students with mentors, and supports their path to graduation.
Jess Tate of the SCI Institute shares about the National Data Platform (NDP), an NSF-funded collaboration designed to transform how researchers access, share, and analyze data. By connecting data sources, tools, and compute resources in a federated ecosystem, NDP makes data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible (FAIR)—advancing collaborative, scalable, and trustworthy science.
The October 15 AI Forum featured updates from University of Utah leaders on AI tools—including the impending campus-wide rollout of ChatGPT Edu—as well as legal considerations, procurement processes, events, and training and curriculum development.
AI-powered transcription and summarization tools are increasingly used to capture meeting notes and recordings. While convenient, they can introduce significant risks related to data privacy, compliance, and institutional liability. This guidance outlines the university’s concerns with using unapproved tools (e.g., Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai) and the advantages of using approved tools such as Microsoft Teams Premium and Zoom AI Companion.