AI Initiatives

The Division of Information Technology’s AI site will help the UMBC community with information on using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), to support UMBC’s Administrative, Instructional, and Research efforts. This site has been created to help employees advance their use of GenAI. We recommend that our UMBC community begin by visiting GenAI Tools, this page will highlight what free resources are available to use and what options exist to use GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data safely.

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time and improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support.

Additionally, we have launched an AI-supported search bar called myUMBC Answers.  We are seeking partners to work with DoIT to expand myUMBC Answers. The key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing validated and accurate content, such as FAQs or a handbook produced annually.

For faculty, we encourage you to also explore instructional AI and research AI. An excellent resource in the College of Engineering is the UMBC Center for AI.  You can follow news about the UMBC Center for AI on social media through its sites on LinkedIn, BlueskyX, and Facebook. Members of the UMBC community can subscribe to the UMBC AI Group to receive email about AI-related news and events. If you have news to share with the UMBC AI community or suggestions or comments on the site, please send them to umbc-ai@cs.umbc.edu.

 

AI News

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Insurance Scam

Telephone Scam - Fake Insurance

There have been reports to the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) that a scammer is calling people and claiming to be from UMBC.The scammer is said to be trying to run an insurance scam and...

Posted: April 26, 2021, 3:52 PM

Fake Paycheck

Fake Paychecks for Fake Jobs

The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has been notified of a scam. The scammer, impersonating a member of the UMBC staff, asks users to deposit a fake check. Attached below is a sample...

Posted: April 26, 2021, 3:49 PM

Job Scam: “UMBC HAPP Employment”

Fake Job Offer for Health Administration and Policy Program

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has received reports of another administrative assistant job scam. Below is an example of this job scam email in which the scammer is claiming to be...

Posted: April 22, 2021, 8:27 PM

“Are you available?” Impersonation Scam

No. Really. Your Supervisor Can Buy Their Own Gift Cards

The scam email below has recently been reported to the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). The example below has the scammer claiming to be UMBC’s Sarah Chard but please note that the...

Posted: April 22, 2021, 8:09 PM

"Job Opening” Administrative Assistant Job Scam

Fake Job Offer for Department of Psychology

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has received reports of another administrative assistant job scam. Below is an example of this job scam email in which the scammer is claiming to be...

Posted: April 22, 2021, 8:05 PM