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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Five Tips to Protect your UMBC Account Over the past weeks,

Avoid Identity Theft - especially of your own Identity

Over the past weeks, we have seen an increase in compromised accounts. So, here at UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT), we thought it was imperative to share some tips on safeguarding...

Posted: April 17, 2022, 8:45 PM

Job Phishing Alert: Department of Biological Sciences

As Usual, The Job Sounds Really Good Except For Not Existing

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of a job phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Brewster of the Department...

Posted: March 3, 2022, 3:12 PM

Phishing Alert: “Available Position”

More remote work scams!

  Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of a job scam phishing email. The scammers are offering a position as a Personal Assistant. Below is an example...

Posted: February 21, 2022, 12:06 PM

Job Scam Phishing Alert “Crypto Purchasing Assistant Needed"

If it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true.

“Crypto Purchasing Assistant Needed - Apply if Interested"  The Division of Information Technology(DoIT) recently received multiple reports of a job scam phishing message. The scammers are...

Posted: February 15, 2022, 11:46 AM

Job Scam Alert: Department of Psychology

An Accidental Forward Keeps Us All On Our Toes

The Division of Information Technology has received quite a few reports of a new job scam email coming from the Department of Psychology. It is very similar to others we have received in the past,...

Posted: February 8, 2022, 2:16 PM