During its second annual symposium on Friday September 12, 2025, the University of Utah Responsible artificial intelligence initiative (One-U rai) has shown how it increases the profile of the State in ethical innovation by forging inter-sector partnerships, stimulating regional infrastructure and supporting researchers using AI to improve life-to diagnose rare diseases in children, restore water to large salt lake, help colleges to learn mathematics, and more.
“You are all the border of this work in this state and in this major university,” said Mitzi Montoya, provost Mitzi Montoya to a crowd of 260 people in the academic world, industry, government and the largest community at the guest house and the university conference. “We are about to show the way to your expertise and your desire to meet and work through the limits, which is a strength and a characteristic of this State and certainly of the University of Utah. You could say that you are all the new ones fourth knot. “”
The symposium served as a platform for teachers and staff affiliated to a RAI One-U to share research and tools in the three thematic fields of the initiative: health care and well-being, environment and teaching and learning-read an overview of Lightning discussions below.
In addition to funding IA researchers with high impact at U, the $ 100 million One -U Rai – launched by President Taylor Randall in October 2023 and managed by the Institute of IT and scientific imaging (SCI)-Will he bring advanced cyberinfrastructure to the region, including U00 Center for High Performance Center updates. This also helps to unite the wider community of state around responsible AI – it Community consortiumFor example, used the symposium to launch a IA management plan This helps organizations of all sizes to adopt the AI responsible.
Such efforts on the level of the state and the role of a rai in them for them were at the heart of the discussions on the symposium.
Main lecturer Margaret BusseExecutive director of the UTAH Ministry of Commerce, said the state has already demonstrated significant leadership in AI. At least two independent reports are suitable: Loudly And Design Recently, has given UTAH the best rankings for the preparation of AI according to factors such as the adoption of AI, jobs, education and financing.
Utah, said Busse, was one of the first states to create a AI policy officewhich identifies the political needs that balance innovation with individual protections. The state, she added, also works on an “connected AI ecosystem” where university establishments can quickly meet the needs of the workforce, including, for example, through a workforce development partnership on a state-of-scale level with NVIDIA, which the leaders of Rai One-U have helped to secure.
These first actions, explained Busse, position Utah to define what the future for AI looks like. “We always like to say that we are struck over our weight,” she said. “In this particular emerging technology of artificial intelligence, we do it a lot – I think it becomes, in fact, an understatement.”
And one rai, said Busse is exactly what the state needs: “He embodies the greatness of Utah.”
During a panel, examining what the RAI and similar efforts should achieve in the future, the university, the state and the leaders of the industry underlined the need to proactively shape AI and to ensure that policies and technologies are pro-human, by preventing the movement of work to encourage the sharing of data to the development of success metrics.
“There is no return to a time when AI did not exist,” said Panelist Rebekah Cummings, Digital questions Director at the Marriott library. “So there is this inevitability, but I don’t think we have to be fatalistic about what this future looks like.” Associated with an intelligent policy, grant programs and public-private partnerships led by a RAI and others can ensure that AI helps people rather than exploiting them.
Manish Parashar, head of the UA in chief of the U and the director of the SCI Institute and One-U rai, also underlined the need for collective action to take advantage of AI to resolve the greatest challenges in the region. From the first day of the initiative, the managers of parachar and academics wanted its scope to reach beyond the university: “We must go far here, and to do this, we must do it together.”
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One-rai’s symposium in 2025 was sponsored by Cisco,, Amplify | IF,, Guarte-Guarbailand the UTA Office of AI Policy. Show it event page For more information.
