There are a variety of tools, resources and guides available to support University of Washington researchers when engaged in AI-related projects. These research resources include, but are not limited to, the following items.
UW IT offers faculty, staff and students access to Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. Copilot offers access to AI and is built on the multimodal large language model GPT-4 and the text-to-image model DALL-E 3. Copilot is grounded in the Bing search index to offer responses with the most current information and verifiable citations for transparency.
The UW’s Office of Information Security and Privacy Office offer guidelines to help researchers make responsible security and privacy decisions when using generative AI. The protection of sensitive data is of paramount concern when using external AI systems.
The UW’s Graduate School offers guidance in the effective and responsible use of AI in the performance of graduate research and in writing dissertations, theses and manuscripts for publication.
The UW’s Health Sciences Library offers a research guide for AI that addresses areas such as definitions, uses, limitations, bias, cost and more.
The Gallagher Law Library offers resources related to AI, including its impact on legal education and the practice of law.