Georgia Tech is introducing a new Academic AI Strategy and launching a new Academic AI Playbook. This marks the next step in the Institute's efforts to prepare students for an AI-enabled future while supporting innovation across teaching and learning.

The Academic AI Strategy establishes a shared vision for how artificial intelligence can support faculty-led innovation while preparing students for a future in which AI will play an increasingly important role across professions, industries, and society

Rooted in academic freedom, the strategy reflects Georgia Tech's commitment to ensuring students are prepared to use AI effectively, thoughtfully, and responsibly while empowering faculty and staff to explore new approaches to teaching, learning, and discovery. The strategy recognizes that decisions about AI in academic settings are best informed by faculty expertise and disciplinary judgment.

Led by Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Raheem Beyah, the strategy was shaped by faculty, staff, students, and academic leaders from across the Institute. It focuses on three priorities: AI Fluency for Every Student, AI Innovation Across the Academic Enterprise, and Institutional Leadership and Engagement.

"Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every industry and profession our graduates will enter," said Beyah. "Georgia Tech has a responsibility to ensure our students are prepared not only to work with these technologies, but to understand their possibilities, limitations, and impacts. This strategy provides a road map for helping our community engage with AI in ways that advance learning, discovery, and societal good."

Helping bring that vision into practice is the Academic AI Playbook, led by David Joyner, interim vice provost for AI in Education. The effort began as a campus-wide initiative to better understand how our instructional community was using, teaching, and responding to AI in Georgia Tech courses. Faculty were invited to share examples of how they were incorporating AI into instruction, teaching AI concepts within their disciplines, and adapting coursework to reflect AI’s growing influence across society.

What began as an effort to inform future planning evolved into an opportunity to capture and share the wide range of work already underway across Georgia Tech.

"In order to understand what the Institute should do regarding AI in education, we needed to understand what faculty were already doing," said Joyner. "While higher education has been wrestling with the impact of AI, Georgia Tech faculty have turned hundreds of classes into micro-laboratories to explore how these technologies can support teaching and learning."

The first edition of the playbook features 67 faculty-authored articles representing every College at Georgia Tech, along with 20 lessons drawn from classroom experience. The collection includes examples of faculty using AI to support instruction, teaching students how AI is shaping their fields, and redesigning assignments and learning experiences for an increasingly AI-enabled world. Together, the articles provide practical, discipline-specific insights that faculty can adapt to their own teaching contexts.

As additional resources, examples, and opportunities for engagement emerge, the Institute will continue sharing guidance and fostering conversations that help faculty shape how AI should and should not be used in the classroom.