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When Professor Michael McBride realized artificial intelligence could solve all of his game theory problem sets, he didn’t ban the technology—instead, he redesigned his entire Economics 113 course to teach students how to use AI tools critically and effectively.
Professor William Hernandez of UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business is inviting AI into his classroom. Hernandez leveraged ZotGPT ClassChat to create a customized chatbot called Negotium—a tool designed to enrich student learning through AI-powered interaction and decision-making.
ZotGPT now enables direct uploads from OneDrive or Google Drive into chat conversations—streamlining research, notes, and file-based analysis for UCI users.
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Utilizing ZotGPT Creator, Sarkis designed a chatbot that can sift through facility websites and generate a concise paragraph in roughly 15 seconds, dramatically simplifying the grant proposal process for researchers.
Starting July 16, 2025, UCI will require ZotDefend security software to access Canvas, TRS, and UCPath—install soon to avoid disruptions.
Faculty and staff can now use ZotGPT Creator to create their own AI Assistants
The UCI-WiFi network enhances campus connectivity with encrypted access for devices provided and managed by UCI.
As announced in March, all computing devices must have the ZotDefend Security Package installed by May 19, 2025*, in order to access protected areas of our campus network such as KFS, Docusign, FacNet, and some department servers. This initiative is part of a mandate...
