Empowering UC San Diego to become AI enabled
Mission & Vision
UC San Diego is building an AI-enabled campus where students, faculty, and staff can confidently leverage trusted, secure, and responsible AI tools to enhance research, improve operations, and expand educational opportunities while protecting ethics, equity, and university values.
AI Strategy, Priorities & Focus Areas
UC San Diego’s AI strategy centers on:
- Secure and UC-controlled infrastructure
- Responsible, ethical, and policy-aligned deployment
- Support for experimentation, research, and operational pilots
- Collaboration across disciplines, units, and departments
Core Goals
- Help campus use AI safely, ethically, and effectively
- Support adoption of AI tools that improve workflows, learning, and research
- Build AI literacy, training, and cross-campus collaboration
- Encourage innovation while safeguarding data, policy, and risk
Operational Focus Areas
- Responsible use of generative AI in administrative workflows
- AI in academic research, including data science, machine learning, and computational modeling
- Use of AI to enhance student learning and support equity
- IT security and privacy safeguards for AI platforms
Governance & Responsible Use
UC San Diego follows UC systemwide Responsible AI principles and applies them to local campus practices. Oversight and guidance are supported by the University of California AI Council.
Workgroups & Communities of Practice
These groups help guide use cases, share learnings, and support adoption. AI collaboration across campus is driven by:
- AI Development Workgroup
- TritonAI Champions Community of Practice
- UC AI Communities of Practice (systemwide)
UC-Wide Resources
Find systemwide guidance, training, and tools to support responsible and effective use of AI across UC.
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