Emory University has introduced a new Responsible AI (RAI) website aimed at providing guidance on the ethical, safe, and effective use of artificial intelligence for its faculty, staff, students, and health care teams. The launch is part of an ongoing university-wide initiative to ensure responsible AI practices across academic and healthcare settings.
The RAI website serves as a central resource for the Emory community. It offers high-level guidance aligned with the university’s mission and principles. Plans are in place to develop more specific recommendations tailored to different groups such as clinicians, researchers, students, and communicators. The development process included collecting feedback from various campus stakeholders.
“In recent years, Emory has significantly expanded its AI efforts through initiatives such as AI.Humanity, the Center for AI Learning and the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute,” said Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Nabile Safdar. “We’ve also established system‑wide governance frameworks that balance innovation with safety and ethics.”
Safdar added: “We drew on the experience and expertise of leaders pioneering the use of AI across Emory University and Emory Healthcare to create this site as a shared resource for our community.”
University officials highlighted that responsible use of AI is necessary not only to protect data privacy and prevent unintended harm but also to enable effective collaboration with new technologies among faculty, students, and staff.
The RAI website provides foundational guidance in several areas including understanding data security responsibilities, analyzing data, information gathering, content generation and proofing, creating or editing multimedia content, and disclosing when AI tools are used. These topics reflect needs identified during Emory’s governance discussions about AI and ongoing training programs such as Responsible AI webinars.
“We believe the site will serve as a starting point for anyone at Emory seeking clarity on how to use AI tools responsibly,” said Melissa Sousa, corporate director of data and AI strategy. “As the landscape of AI capabilities is changing, so will our understanding of what constitutes responsible AI. Thus, this site will need to evolve, too. We encourage Emory students, faculty, researchers, providers, clinicians and staff to bring forward important issues where guidance might be needed, clarified or updated.”
Faculty members, staffers, and students are encouraged to visit the new site to share feedback or participate in upcoming training opportunities as part of building a culture focused on safe and ethical use of artificial intelligence.
