Podcast: San Diego Colleges Create Equitable AI Alliance
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Podcast: San Diego Colleges Create Equitable AI Alliance
"Our goal is simple but ambitious: to make AI literacy and access available as opportunities to all of our students, and I mean every student, whether they started at a community college, a California State University like ours or at a University of California school. We want to make sure they all have that same foundation to understand and apply AI responsibly in their lives, in their careers and during their academic journey."
"Through this alliance, we're trying to align resources and expand access to institutionally supported AI tools. So when people are using the free tools, they're not free, right? They're paying for them with their privacy, with their intellectual property. We want to make sure that they have access, not only to the training they need to use these tools responsibly, but also to the high-quality tools that are more accurate and that have commercial data protection so that they"
San Diego State University, the University of California San Diego, and the San Diego Community College District created the Equitable AI Alliance to expand AI literacy and access for all students. The alliance aims to align resources and provide institutionally supported AI tools with affordability and accessibility in mind. The initiative emphasizes responsible AI use, training, and access to higher-quality tools that protect privacy and intellectual property. Leaders note that free AI tools often cost users privacy or intellectual property. The alliance shares best practices, resources, and expertise to reduce equity gaps and prepare students to apply AI in academic and career contexts.
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