JMU is committed to providing students, faculty, and staff with the resources and information needed to build AI literacy. AI literacy is the “ability to understand, use, and think critically about AI technologies and their impact on society, ethics, and everyday life.” (Lo, 2025) In alignment with our guiding principles, we encourage people to consider how AI literacy intersects with ideas such as, but not limited to, privacy, human-centeredness, and responsibility.

What does it mean to understand the technology? When (and how) do you decide to use it and when not to? How are you critically thinking about use and impact across a range of audiences: yourself, others, a community, the environment? Through continued dialogue, reflection, and practice, a grounding in AI literacy can ensure that uses of AI advance knowledge, support people, and reflect the values of JMU.