a man in a white dress shirt and a yellow tie stands with his family and a sign behind them that reads Congratulations Mr. Anderson

Putting the Principles of Education to Work

Three pamphlets with illustrations of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers and school materials, fanned out on a table

Campus Life

School’s in Session

Peregoy displays a collection of vintage cameras.

Campus Life

Ministering to the Most Vulnerable

National parks superintendent Jim Bailey poses with his family at the Booker T Washington Monument, a place that celebrates living history

Alumni

The AI apocalypse is coming. Or it isn’t. Depending on what you read, you might get confused. One thing is certain: Humans are fired up about smart machines. Much of the attention has focused on ChatGPT, an “artificial intelligence language model designed to generate human-like responses to natural language prompts” (in its own words).

While ChatGPT advises that “it’s always a good idea to double-check any important information I provide,” some UMBC researchers are working to build better safeguards into the AI systems themselves—AI the public can trust.