In late 2025, the Office of the Provost formed the Faculty Leadership Group on Artificial Intelligence to explore key questions related to artificial intelligence in teaching, research and other work. The group was charged with making recommendations to senior leaders for developing Dartmouth’s strengths in the areas of artificial intelligence in research and teaching, and student learning and advancing Dartmouth’s visibility as an AI leader. 

The 2025-2026 Faculty Leadership Group on AI report, with full recommendations from the research and pedagogy subcommittees, is now available. Based on the group’s work, Dartmouth has launched its 2026-2027 AI Initiatives. 
 

Dartmouth has also appointed an AI Fellow, Roopika Risam, to lead a university-wide academic approach to AI-enabled teaching and research. Her work includes collaborating with academic leaders to identify and address gaps in policies, mapping the landscape of AI activities at Dartmouth, facilitating community conversations to develop shared understanding and principles for generative AI, and piloting recommendations from the Faculty Leadership Group to identify which Dartmouth will continue to pursue.

This work builds on the Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Initiative, launched in early 2025, to strategically explore its future in AI research and teaching. Led by Associate Professor and Special Advisor to the Provost on AI, James “Jed” Dobson, the GenAI Initiative focused on fostering inclusive dialogue, interdisciplinary collaboration, and national partnerships, while aiming to assess Dartmouth’s current AI capabilities, spark new ideas, and strengthen AI-related pedagogy.

Recent work includes:

• Jed Dobson’s 2025 report, Artificial Intelligence at Dartmouth: Opportunities & Recommendations

• Implementing a secure and free chatbot platform, Dartmouth Chat, that provides access to the latest commercial and open multi-modal models to the entire Dartmouth community;

• Partnering with the Montgomery Fellows Program to host Agency, Speech, and Ethics in the AI Era a series of four Montgomery Fellows visiting Dartmouth for the winter and spring terms;

• Introducing the Critical AI lecture series;

• Facilitating workshops for faculty interested in learning more about the use of AI in the classroom;

• Providing opportunities for teaching grants for faculty integrating AI into the classroom; and 

• Launching a pilot project to introduce AI literacy into the undergraduate curriculum.

• University Seminars exploring AI
• The AI at 70 Conference

Students, faculty, and staff can find more resources by visiting AI at Dartmouth.