Provost’s Working Group on Generative AI

The Provost’s Working Group on Generative AI is tasked by Interim Provost Dennis Mitchell to develop guidelines on the use (and procurement) of generative artificial intelligence tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Llama 2) by Columbia students, faculty, researchers and staff.

Areas of Focus

  • Academic Integrity and Ethical Use
  • Protection of Unpublished Research, Confidential Data, Clinical Data, and IP
  • Responsibility and Accountability
  • Security: Scams/Phishing and Cyber Security
  • Procurement Process and Vetting by CUIT

Committee

Maneesha Aggarwal, AVP of Academic, Emerging Technologies, & Research Services, CUIT
Timothy Crimmins, Associate Professor of Medicine
Jeanine D’Armiento, Chair of University Senate Executive Committee and Professor of Medicine
Dan Driscoll, Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Noémie Elhadad, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology
Joseph Greenwell, Senior Vice President of Student Affairs, University Life
Amanda Irvin, Senior Director of Faculty Programs and Services, CTL
Soulaymane Kachani (Chair), Senior Vice Provost and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research 
Patrice Le Melle, Associate General Counsel
Gaspare LoDuca, Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology
Neil McClure, Chief Human Resources Officer, CUIMC
Vishal Misra, Professor of Computer Science and Vice Dean of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Naomi Schrag, Vice President for Research Compliance, Training, and Policy
Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian
Zhou Yu, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Sarah Jubinski, Office of the Provost
Merrell Norden, Office of the Provost
Sandesh Tuladhar, Office of the Provost

Policy

Policy text can be found here.