Morgans' $1.25M gift to support AI fellows program | Cornell Chronicle

"A three-year, $1.25 million seed grant from long-time Cornell donors James C. Morgan '60, MBA '63, and Rebecca Quinn Morgan '60 will support the establishment of an artificial intelligence fellows program focused on operational and administrative transformation at Cornell."

"The new Workplace Innovation and Impact Team (WIT) Seed Funding Program - part of the Cornell AI Initiative , led by Provost Kavita Bala and Vice Provost for AI Strategy Thorsten Joachims - will fuel responsible development of AI including innovations in AI-enabled Cornell teaching and learning, and the effective transformation of Cornell administration and operations."

"The new program will feature a cohort of six to eight early-career fellows and adjunct AI leaders per year; workforce skills enhancement; and an emerging toolset pilot program that will feature a closed "sandbox" environment to allow for safe experimentation using emerging AI tools."

"The first year of the program will be dedicated to design, recruitment of four to five fellows, development and launch. The fellows will be recent graduates, from across disciplines, who will be in one- to three-year rotations focused on AI-enabled administrative and operations projects. They will gain hands-on organizational experience and receive AI-specific and general business training."

A three-year $1.25 million seed grant supports an artificial intelligence fellows program focused on operational and administrative transformation at Cornell. The Workplace Innovation and Impact Team (WIT) Seed Funding Program, part of the Cornell AI Initiative, will fund responsible AI development, including AI-enabled teaching and learning innovations and effective transformation of administration and operations. WIT is co-led by Cornell Information Technologies’ AI strategy and innovation executive director, the Office of Human Resources organizational development leader, and the Cornell chief information officer. The program will run with six to eight early-career fellows and adjunct AI leaders per year, workforce skills enhancement, and a closed sandbox for safe experimentation. The first year will focus on design, recruiting four to five fellows, and launching rotations on AI-enabled administrative and operations projects.

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