Artificial Intelligence at CNU
"As a university, it is our responsibility to ensure you, our students, know how to use AI effectively and, most importantly, ethically. We can achieve this by assessing your existing experience, supporting our faculty through the Center for Effective Teaching, and learning from the AI-assisted research our students and faculty are already conducting.
"Technology will always be evolving, but our commitment to the Honor Code is constant and unwavering. And as we engage in this important work, one thing is clear and undeniable: we can not and will not outsource our thinking and learning to artificial intelligence or any other form of technology."
President William G. Kelly
Community of Scholars Honors Convocation
AI Across the University
The Quality Enhancement Plan at CNU is focused on when and how to use AI effectively and, critically, how to use it ethically and responsibly. It emphasizes the core values of a liberal arts education as an avenue to prepare students for an increasingly AI-influenced world.
Students developed an innovative AI dashboard that identifies and tracks mosquitoes in real time to help reduce disease spread across Norfolk.
The Department of Philosophy and Religion offers PHIL 208, a class in the ethics of AI, examining questions about bias, privacy, creativity, responsibility, and human freedom.
The School of Engineering and Computing offers a new and unique AI major.
AI Major PHIL 208The Trible Library offers an in-depth guide available to all that describes how AI can be a tool for research and organizing information.
AI Guide
The Institute for Public Humanities built an AI-ready, state-of-the-art Virtual Reality Lab so that faculty and students in arts and humanities can experiment with immersive storytelling without needing to code.
Institute for Public HumanitiesDr. David Roaché’s research focuses on how people in search of a date can make a connection via text by using AI.
'Hey Siri, Help Me Get a Date'