As a member of the DePaul community, you're responsible for keeping student data secure. Under FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) and according to DePaul policies, any personally identifiable information (PII) stored on network or cloud drives must be accessible only to authorized users and must only be stored in DePaul-authorized services.

For a helpful guide on how data and access is categorized at DePaul, please refer to the Security Classifications & Controls Matrix for Highly Sensitive, Sensitive, Internal Restricted, and Internal Non-Restricted Covered Data document.

For this reason, many of your day-to-day functions at DePaul require that you login to services with your BlueKey credentials. When you do so, you are accessing services that are encrypted and secure.
There is only one Large Language Model (LLM) that requires your DePaul BlueKey credentials for secure use:

Copilot Chat

Please note: Copilot Chat was previously known as Copilot with Enterprise Data Protection, Copilot With Commercial Data Protection, and Bing Chat

This version of Copilot has these important features:

• Protected and encrypted chats
• Documents are saved to your DePaul OneDrive
• Conversations are not used to train foundation models
• Powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o models
• Image creation powered by OpenAI's models

Copilot Chat is thus the default LLM that faculty, staff, and students should use. Exceptions are naturally granted for research, teaching, and official college business with relevant approval.

This session will cover how both faculty and staff can use Copilot Chat in their daily use.

AI agents are autonomous systems that can tackle complex tasks (from managing your inbox and answering customer queries to controlling autonomous vehicles) by reasoning through problems and taking action with minimal human guidance.

We're entering an exciting era where AI agents are moving from research labs into real-world applications. While the technology shows tremendous promise, understanding both its capabilities and current limitations is crucial for anyone working in tech today.
Join us for this hands-on workshop where you'll explore:

• What's possible now: Live demonstrations of current AI agent capabilities
• What's coming next: Emerging trends and near-future possibilities
• Best practices: When and how to leverage AI agents effectively
• Critical considerations: Security, privacy, and ethical implications you need to know

This interactive session explores the multifaceted landscape of AI—highlighting benefits, risks, and pitfalls through the lens of faculty responsibilities in teaching, research, and governance. Using real-world examples and guided reflection, participants will build strategies to leverage AI effectively while navigating ethical considerations and institutional policies.