Wharton School undergraduate students will gain access to Claude Enterprise generative artificial intelligence accounts.
Cait Lamberton, vice dean and director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division, announced the licensed AI tool in an Aug. 25 email welcoming students back to campus. According to the message, students can expect additional guidance on using their accounts shortly.
All users will be required to complete a training course on the rules, risks, and privacy measures associated with agentic coding tools before activating their accounts. MBA students have already been granted access.
A request for comment was left with a Wharton spokesperson.
Penn community members can use <a href="https://isc.upenn.edu/ai/microsoft-copilot-chat-faq” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Microsoft Copilot Chat through their University accounts. The University also began piloting its own AI portal — titled PennChat — in July.
The pilot, which includes certain Claude and ChatGPT models, is part of a wider effort by Information Systems and Computing to provide AI tools, resources, and training to students and faculty.
The portal is “hosted within Penn’s secure network environment” on Amazon Web Services “where companies cannot use Penn data to train AI models.” Based on the open-els through Amazon Bedrock and to OpenAI models through Microsoft Foundry
Users must be connected to PennNet, AirPennNet, or the University’s GlobalProtect VPNto access the PennChat portal. Once on the platform, users can select from 14 different models, sorted into three categories based on credit consumption — premium, balanced, and economical — as well as a legacy category for older LLMs.
The University offers general guidance on AI use, and its official course policy is that “each instructor is responsible for setting their own guidelines” on AI use in the classroom. As part of the most recent reports by Penn’s Faculty Senate, the Senate Committee on Students and Educational Policy recommended that the University adopt broad, centralized guidelines regarding acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI.
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