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University of Alaska regents consider draft AI policy

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The University of Alaska's board of regents is reviewing a draft policy on artificial intelligence use across the university system. No details about the policy's scope or contents have been made public yet.

Why this matters: Universities collect a lot of sensitive data on students, faculty, and researchers. An AI policy shapes what tools get used, what data those tools can touch, and who is accountable when something goes wrong. Students rarely get a seat at that table. The draft stage is the right moment to ask hard questions, because once a policy is adopted it tends to get followed without much revisiting.

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