Arizona State University Campus Immersion
AZ · AI Readiness #44 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 8.4 /10
ASU is a highly AI-integrated research university with broad student-facing programs.
ASU has a university-built platform (CreateAI), campus-wide ChatGPT Edu deployment, cross-disciplinary AI degrees, strong industry partnerships with AWS and Intel, and active federal research participation. The remaining gaps are no named CAIO title, no confirmed standalone AI ethics course open across schools, and no confirmed flagship-scale federal AI grant lead.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: A-
- Curriculum: A-
- Partnerships: B-
- Research: B+
A(I)ttitude™: progressive
Selected Highlights
- CIO Lev Gonick, Deputy CIO Kyle Bowen, VP Anne Jones, and VP Sukhwant Jhaj share AI leadership; no single CAIO title but distributed senior AI responsibility documented
- GenAI Community of Practice with named conveners (Provost Gonzalez, EVP Anguiano, CIO Gonick) and Faculty Ethics Committee on AI Technology confirmed as ongoing governance bodies
- Principled Innovation Framework, AI Digital Trust Guidelines, and Design Principles for Beneficial and Responsible AI constitute a multi-document institutional AI strategy
- $1B+ total research commitment, $39M SCAI FY2025, and multimillion-dollar Intel donation documented
- AI CIC (AWS partnership), CHART (Nancy Cooke PI), and Yochan/AI Lab (Kambhampati PI) confirmed as cross-disciplinary AI hubs with named leads