Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,
Following the President’s Office announcement that Georgetown University will soon have access to Google Gemini—along with additional tools in the future—we are writing to share how these new capabilities fit within our broader academic mission and our long-standing commitment to innovation.
Access to Gemini will allow Georgetown to build on its leadership at the intersection of technology and society by supporting a thoughtful approach to artificial intelligence in research, teaching, and institutional practice. As we move forward, our work will focus on five core priorities:
- Continue our leadership in Technology and Society by bringing a human-centered and ethically informed approach to AI in research, teaching and business practices, and how we engage with the many communities we serve.
- Study and examine ways to incorporate AI into the curriculum and our research practices.
- Develop a plan to integrate AI in a rigorous and critical way in consultation with faculty.
- Evaluate and account for the use of AI in the classroom and our research.
- Continue to work with faculty leadership to develop guidance for the use of AI at Georgetown.
In addition to the important work already unfolding within each of our schools, the University is advancing its understanding of AI and its impacts on three fronts:
- Collaboration with CNDLS: CNDLS is helping interested faculty thoughtfully integrate AI into teaching and learning, providing research-informed guidance, faculty development opportunities, and spaces for experimentation and exploration.
- Faculty-led research and exploration: Scholars across the university are advancing scholarship on AI’s societal implications, from technology and human flourishing to data for social impact to security and governance.
- School-level innovation and curricular development: Each Dean is working with faculty to responsibly integrate AI into the curriculum. Just a few examples include: for fall 2026, the College of Arts & Sciences is developing a novel three-course, cross-major AI concentration that addresses the ethics of AI, its scientific foundations, and concrete applications. The McDonough School of Business is creating a new AI core requirement for the MBA program and faculty are developing a suite of AI-related courses in each MSB program, with particular emphasis on course-specific custom GPTs and utilizing AI to improve access, equity, and student support in the classroom.
- In collaboration with MedStar Health, Georgetown is creating a simulation center for faculty and students where AI, guided by human-centered design, will impact how we collaborate to improve the human condition. The Medical Center continues to advance the work of the AI Co-Lab, a joint initiative with MedStar Health to create, advance, and lead AI research and education.
- At the Law Center, AI features prominently in the scholarship of many faculty members with more than a dozen courses addressing various dimensions of AI, from its use in legal practice to the regulation of AI in areas such as consumer protection and national security. The Law Center also sponsors a wide range of AI-related programming, including the Tech Institute’s recently launched Georgetown AI in the Legal Profession (GAILP).
We recognize that the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence raises important opportunities, questions and concerns about its impact on learning, discovery, and advancing the mission of Georgetown. We want to affirm that faculty remain the experts on appropriate use of any tool in their classrooms and we support faculty in making those determinations as AI and its uses evolve. As with all complex global challenges, we are committed to preparing our students not simply to use powerful tools, but to question them, govern them responsibly, and apply them in service of the common good.
We look forward to continued dialogue with faculty, staff, and students as we take these next steps together.
Sincerely,
Soyica Diggs Colbert
Interim Provost
Norman J. Beauchamp Jr.
Executive Vice President for Health Sciences
Joshua C. Teitelbaum
Interim Dean and Executive Vice President, Law Center