As the new academic semester begins, students and professors at Pitt are facing the popularity of AI in academics. Carnegie Mellon University, the “birthplace of AI,” recently held a conference focusing on the future of AI. Pittsburgh recently hosted the AI Horizons Summit at Bakery Square, which addressed AI and its development in Pennsylvania. Pitt recently put in place new AI tools, including PittGPT — a generative AI platform that allows faculty and administrators to have their information protected — and released new protocols for what is considered a reasonable use for AI among students and faculty members. Wise said his peers feel negatively about AI, but he believes AI will never surpass organic human creativity.