Provost expects large fall 2026 enrollment 
Upcoming AI recruiting chat bot for UI discussed in Faculty Senate 

Provost Torrey Lawrence spoke about the 2026-27 academic year estimated enrollment numbers at the March 10 University of Idaho Faculty Senate meeting.  “It appears that we’re still on track to actually have a larger class, but […]

OPINION: Layoffs expose the hidden cost of the AI boom
Automation is no longer a helper – it is taking over human roles, reshaping the future of work

The recent wave of layoffs across major technology companies is not merely another round of cost-cutting measures; it signals a deeper structural shift driven by artificial intelligence. Firms such as […]

UI philosophy professor launches AI reasoning challenge
The Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus competition will close Nov. 30 

On Tuesday, Sept. 2, University of Idaho professor Bert Baumgaertner kicked off the fall semester’s Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium with “Easy for Humans, Hard for AI: Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning […]

University of Idaho bans DeepSeek on campus
OIT cites compliance with Department of Energy requirements

DeepSeek use is now fully banned on university devices, according to the University of Idaho Office of Information Technology. OIT issued a university-wide memo on Aug. 7, announcing that access […]