UC San Diego AI vision
Why UC San Diego encourages the campus community to explore AI, and where the strategy is headed.
How to use this series
One journey, watched in order
These videos build on each other, so start at video 1 and follow the numbers. Watched end to end, the general journey takes about 3 hours. Teams can also spread the series across regular meetings: watch one video together, then use the discussion points beneath it. Your spot is saved on this browser, so leaving and returning picks up where you stopped.
Instructors: the faculty stream branches off after the general journey.
Series
Foundations
Start here for the shared ground: what AI is, the strategy behind it at UC San Diego, and the data, ethics, and governance guardrails that apply to every tool. Watch these first if you are new to campus AI.
What is AI?
Which AI you will encounter day to day, what it does well, where it fails, and the key terms worth knowing.
AI tools at UC San Diego
Which AI tools the campus offers, and a simple framework for picking the right one for the work.
AI data, privacy, and security
How clean data shapes AI output, and how the UC data classification system decides what you can share with which tool.
Ethics and responsible AI use
Understand the eight UC responsible AI principles and how bias shows up in AI systems.
AI governance at UC San Diego
Who reviews AI decisions on campus and how the governance process works.
Human in the loop
Why human review of AI output matters, how hallucinations happen, and where your judgment stays essential.
AI and sustainability
What the environmental footprint of AI looks like and the choices UC San Diego makes to align AI infrastructure with sustainability commitments.
Look at the process before the AI
Examine the process first: how to map what actually happens before deciding where AI helps, and the support available for that work.
Example: Review gates every AI change passes through
Follow the checks between an AI-drafted change and the public website, from automated tests to the human merge decision.
Series
Using the tools
Hands-on walkthroughs of the approved tools, from TritonGPT to Gemini, NotebookLM, Copilot, and Zoom. Each video pairs one tool with campus use cases you can repeat at your own desk.
Prompting essentials
What a prompt is, why it drives most AI results, and what to include for the audience you have in mind.
AI for daily tasks
Put AI to work on drafting, summarizing, and scheduling in everyday campus work.
AI for data, decisions, and communications
How AI can analyze data and support decisions without replacing human judgment, plus help for communications and outreach.
TritonGPT overview
What makes TritonGPT different from other assistants, and the specialized functions built for UC San Diego.
Google Gemini overview
Create a Gem and use the specialized functions available in Gemini at UC San Diego.
NotebookLM overview
Practical campus use cases for NotebookLM, from source-grounded research to study guides.
Microsoft Copilot overview
Practical campus use cases for Microsoft Copilot across the tools you already use.
Zoom AI overview
Practical campus use cases for Zoom's AI features, from meeting summaries to follow-ups.
Example: Prompting basics for campus work
Learn the START prompting pattern and practice it on everyday campus tasks before applying it in TritonGPT.
Series
Building
For people ready to move from using AI to creating with it. These videos cover harnesses, automation, and the review path that turns an idea into a supported service.
Citizen developer harnesses and automation
How to move from using AI to building with it, and where a harness fits safely in the campus ecosystem.
Example: Editing the website with the TritonAI Harness
Watch the Harness take one website change from request to live verification, with a person approving every gate.
Watch Example: Editing the website with the TritonAI Harness
Series
Faculty stream
Made for instructors: student perspectives on AI, assessment at scale, course design, and the teaching assistant experience. Pair these with the Foundations series when weighing classroom decisions.
Student perspectives on AI
Hear how UC San Diego students use AI in their coursework and daily academic life.
Assessment at scale with AI
Approaches for assessing student work at scale with AI assistance while keeping academic judgment with the instructor.
Course design using AI
Ways instructors can apply AI while designing a course, with human judgment at the center.
AI in the teaching assistant experience
Where AI fits in the instructional support role, and what stays with the person.
After the videos
Design what comes next
Once you have been through the series, tell us where your team wants to go deeper and we will design a session around your work. Asking us to revisit topics from these videos is a normal request; the point is that now you know what to ask for.