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Contents Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Information Technology Services (ITS) has received questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI. Some of those questions are: Can we use it? What can we use it for? Is it safe? ITS has examined the technical and legal aspects of this technology to see where and…

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ITS has received questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Generative AI. Some of those questions are: Can we use it? What can we use it for? Is it safe? ITS has examined the technical and legal aspects of this technology to see where and how it fits into our technology stack. To provide a bit…

You may recall receiving an email in February 2025 on behalf of the UMSL Digital Accessibility Taskforce alerting you to updates to regulations impacting ADA Title II, which states that public universities must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA digital accessibility standards by April 2026. Colleagues across the UMSL campus have joined to form the UMSL…

Spoofing is a tool used by scammers that changes their caller ID information to appear like a familiar phone number. The goal of the scammers is to gain information that they can use or sell. The scammers have recently started using some UMSL numbers when making these sorts of calls. To address this issue, ITS…