Technical foundation
ASU is building the foundation for a new era of AI innovation that is accessible, secure, and purpose-driven. By investing in advanced machine learning, data science capabilities, and enterprise-scale infrastructure, ASU is creating the conditions for students, faculty, and staff to confidently explore and build AI-powered experiences.
What was once limited to highly technical teams is now becoming more approachable. Through intuitive tools and guided environments, the ASU community can experiment with generative AI, test ideas, and develop solutions without requiring deep engineering expertise.
This technical foundation is model-agnostic and cloud-flexible, giving ASU the freedom to choose the best technologies across vendors. The result is an environment where evidence-based, AI-enhanced educational experiences can be created faster, more affordably, and with greater personalization. This approach advances both academic excellence and operational innovation across the university.
CreateAI Platform: Enabling AI-Powered Experiences at Scale
The CreateAI Platform is a secure environment that makes it easier for the ASU community to build and explore custom AI-powered tools. It simplifies the complexities of AI development, offering intuitive interfaces and pre-vetted models that allow students, faculty, and staff to prototype and launch AI-driven solutions—without needing deep technical expertise.
Designed to be model-agnostic and cloud-flexible, the platform ensures access to the best technologies while maintaining ASU’s standards for security, ethics, and scalability. It serves as the engine behind many of ASU’s generative AI tools, supporting experimentation, innovation, and real-world application across disciplines.
Ethical AI Engine
The use of Generative AI may generate biased results due to explicit or implicit human biases in its training data. Currently, industry-wide research is active in addressing and mitigating biases and other harmful outputs in generative AI, focusing on creating safer and more reliable AI technologies.
At ASU, we're setting new standards for ethical AI with our Ethical AI Engine. Our team of expert data scientists developed multifaceted evaluations to screen AI output for bias, accuracy, and ethical integrity, including fairness and resistance to disinformation. This innovative framework is comprehensive and extends evaluation to key aspects of AI usability—including response accuracy, processing speed, and propensity for hallucinations—alongside critical ethical considerations such handling of sensitive queries.
The Ethical AI Engine ensures AI technologies adhere to our principles of ethical innovation, serving as a cornerstone in developing beneficial and reliable AI. It establishes benchmarks for all collaborations, including with AI vendor partners, underpinning our commitment to creating AI that genuinely serves humanity.
Solving enterprise challenges
Our diverse community of faculty and staff members from various disciplines, including those without a background in software engineering or development, are enabled through our collaborative approach to create enriching AI experiences for the entire university.
Accelerate AI white papers
Review our white papers evaluating topic modeling, LLM-powered chatbots, generative AI and more.
Ethical foundations grounded in Principled Innovation
Through our cutting-edge models that drive transformation and rapid experimentation while upholding the tenets of Principled Innovation®, this platform is crucial for propelling AI projects and enabling large-scale innovation.
This framework guides our ability to imagine new concepts, catalyze ideas and form new solutions, guided by principles that create positive change for humanity.
Faculty Ethics Committee on AI technology
The Faculty Ethics Committee on AI technology supports Enterprise Technology in advising on ethical practices and responsible design in an environment of constant change. The committee’s primary responsibility is to review, advise and shape guidelines/guardrails related to AI use in technology products. The group has 3 main goals:
- Contribute to the development and continual evolution of a set of guidelines and guardrails that AI-enabled technology products should adhere to.
- Committee members are involved in the technology development process, reviewing AI-enabled technology solutions at various stages, from proposed to developed, to guide adherence to ethical practices and uses.
- Contribute to whitepapers, meetings, or other educational forums to help the team and broader ASU community stay up-to-date on the latest in AI ethics in technology.
The committee’s expertise in ethics and AI’s potential implications enables them to analyze the ethical challenges associated with AI technologies, including data privacy, bias, transparency, and social impact. The committee fosters a comprehensive understanding of AI's ethical complexities by collaborating with different stakeholders, such as researchers, administrators, and external experts.
With their collective knowledge, the committee strives to establish an ethical framework that aligns with the university’s values and meets societal expectations. They also provide educational resources and conduct educational campaigns to promote responsible AI use and cultivate an ethical AI technology culture.
Meet the AI Acceleration team
The AI Acceleration team’s mission is to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to revolutionize the student experience, advance research excellence, and expand ASU's impact on society.
Through the lens of Principled Innovation®, we embrace AI not as a replacement for human intelligence but as an amplifier of human creativity and problem-solving to help unlock each learner's full potential.