AI Initiatives

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

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save people time and hopefully improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support and we are seeking partners to work with DoIT on expanding myUMBC Answers. The real key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is to be able to provide 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. A wonderful resource in the College of Engineering Center for AI.  You can follow news about the UMBC Center for AI on social media through its sites on LinkedIn, Bluesky, X, 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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Phishing Email Subject Lines

A Guide To Common Phishing Email Subjects

With COVID-19 and associated restrictions remaining prevalent, many malicious actors have used the opportunity to update their phishing email campaigns. The article linked below explains some of...

Posted: July 22, 2020, 2:45 PM

Work-From-Home Scams Targeting College Students

"To Good To Be True"

According to the article linked below, a recent work-from-home scam has been targeting college students. These malicious actors are targeting students via emails that appear to be sent from a...

Posted: July 13, 2020, 4:08 PM

Tips for online purchasing during COVID-19

Scamming Websites Are Selling Fake Products

With COVID-19 causing many to shop online instead of in person, many scamming websites have appeared selling fake products. The Better Business Bureau created a list of tips for shopping online...

Posted: July 13, 2020, 4:03 PM

Avoiding COVID-19 Contact Tracing Scams

How To Spot The Scammers

Contact tracing is an integral part of the fight against COVID-19.  It speeds response, identifies potential hot spots, and focuses testing efforts.  Unfortunately, it also creates an opportunity...

Posted: July 13, 2020, 3:42 PM

IRS Warning of COVID-19 Scams

Financial Scammers Taking Advantage Of COVID-19 Uncertainty

With COVID-19 present in our day to day lives, malicious actors are taking this opportunity to scam people out of their personal and financial information. Recently the IRS Criminal Investigation...

Posted: June 19, 2020, 10:22 AM