CUNY AI Lab
@cunyailab.bsky.social
AI infrastructure for CUNY, by CUNY. We prioritize privacy, transparency, and thoughtful integration of AI into academic work. ailab.gc.cuny.edu
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AI is upending education — from how students learn to how schools prepare them. On Oct. 14, Cornell’s Steven Jackson, CUNY’s Aankit Patel, and The New York Times’ Natasha Singer tackle what comes next, moderated by the Graduate Center’s Luke Waltzer. Register www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
AI is upending education — from how students learn to how schools prepare them. On Oct. 14, Cornell’s Steven Jackson, CUNY’s Aankit Patel, and The New York Times’ Natasha Singer tackle what comes next, moderated by the Graduate Center’s Luke Waltzer. Register www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
Please join us on October 14 at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for a panel discussion on “AI and the Future of Education” co-sponsored by the CUNY AI Lab and moderated by CAIL co-founder @lukewaltzer.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
AI and the Future of Education
Elebash Recital Hall
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October 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Please join us on October 14 at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for a panel discussion on “AI and the Future of Education” co-sponsored by the CUNY AI Lab and moderated by CAIL co-founder @lukewaltzer.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: Spring 2026 CAIL fellow Jonathan B. Toro on the limits of AI-assisted coding and how our tendency to anthropomorphize LLMs can obscure the human knowledge and communities that make digital infrastructure possible. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/saying-...
Saying Please to an LLM: Building an Interactive Window with an Open-Weight Model - CUNY AI Lab
A CAIL Fellow spends three months load-testing open-weight models in the CAIL Sandbox, tries to build a citation tool inside the chat, and finds out what it takes to get it working.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu
September 22, 2026 at 5:13 PM
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: Spring 2026 CAIL fellow Jonathan B. Toro on the limits of AI-assisted coding and how our tendency to anthropomorphize LLMs can obscure the human knowledge and communities that make digital infrastructure possible. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/saying-...
Gentle reminder: applications for the 2026-27 CUNY AI Lab Fellowship are due tomorrow! All Grad Center students are eligible to apply. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cail-fe...
Call for Applications: CAIL Fellows 2026-27 - CUNY AI Lab
The CUNY AI Lab is seeking graduate student Fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are due September 22, 2026.
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September 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Gentle reminder: applications for the 2026-27 CUNY AI Lab Fellowship are due tomorrow! All Grad Center students are eligible to apply. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cail-fe...
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DHQ is looking for its next home/editor! Get in touch if you have any questions!
Deadline extended. ACH seeks a new Editor in Chief and institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Expressions of interest now due Jan 8, 2027. DHQ is diamond open access, free for readers and authors. Details and how to apply at: buff.ly/i1x9v5Y
Call for proposals: DHQ institutional host and Editor in Chief
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August 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
DHQ is looking for its next home/editor! Get in touch if you have any questions!
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: we run nearly all of our tools on open-weight models. Here’s why. (Spoiler alert: they are more transparent, cost a fraction of the proprietary flagship models, and have all but closed the capability gap.) ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/running...
Running the CUNY AI Lab on Open Weights - CUNY AI Lab
Why the CUNY AI Lab runs nearly all of its tools on open-weight models — what open weights are, what frontier models cost to run, and how open models have closed the capability gap.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu
July 20, 2026 at 10:22 PM
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: we run nearly all of our tools on open-weight models. Here’s why. (Spoiler alert: they are more transparent, cost a fraction of the proprietary flagship models, and have all but closed the capability gap.) ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/running...
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Literally messaged @plach.bsky.social this at the exact moment she posted this lol
I wish more institutions would dedicate resources to home-grown critical AI experimentation, rather than ceding control and precious dollars to our tech overloads. @cunyailab.bsky.social is a model of how to do this! #ACH2026
June 26, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Literally messaged @plach.bsky.social this at the exact moment she posted this lol
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I wish more institutions would dedicate resources to home-grown critical AI experimentation, rather than ceding control and precious dollars to our tech overloads. @cunyailab.bsky.social is a model of how to do this! #ACH2026
June 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I wish more institutions would dedicate resources to home-grown critical AI experimentation, rather than ceding control and precious dollars to our tech overloads. @cunyailab.bsky.social is a model of how to do this! #ACH2026
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Moderating one last session of papers for #ACH2026 "Building Community-Oriented Infrastructures for AI Experimentation" featuring a whole host of people from @cuny.edu discussing their work at the @cunyailab.bsky.social
June 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Moderating one last session of papers for #ACH2026 "Building Community-Oriented Infrastructures for AI Experimentation" featuring a whole host of people from @cuny.edu discussing their work at the @cunyailab.bsky.social
We’re glad to share the CUNY Graduate Center AI Guidelines, co-drafted by three of the CUNY AI Lab’s co-founders.
The guidelines are meant to support thoughtful, transparent, and critically engaged uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work across the GC community.
The guidelines are meant to support thoughtful, transparent, and critically engaged uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work across the GC community.
I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social and Chief librarian Maura Smale @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for developing these draft AI Guidelines
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June 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
We’re glad to share the CUNY Graduate Center AI Guidelines, co-drafted by three of the CUNY AI Lab’s co-founders.
The guidelines are meant to support thoughtful, transparent, and critically engaged uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work across the GC community.
The guidelines are meant to support thoughtful, transparent, and critically engaged uses of AI in teaching, research, and administrative work across the GC community.
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A nice surprise: @cunyailab.bsky.social has launched an #AI Use Disclosure tool based on the #GAIDeT framework. Researchers can now generate publication-ready, structured disclosures of how #genAI was used across different stages of the research workflow: tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ai-disclosure/
June 25, 2026 at 7:42 AM
A nice surprise: @cunyailab.bsky.social has launched an #AI Use Disclosure tool based on the #GAIDeT framework. Researchers can now generate publication-ready, structured disclosures of how #genAI was used across different stages of the research workflow: tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ai-disclosure/
We’re excited to share that CUNY Login Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available for the CUNY AI Lab Sandbox!
Existing approved users can now sign in with their CUNY credentials by clicking “Continue with CUNY Login.”
More details here: ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-lo...
Existing approved users can now sign in with their CUNY credentials by clicking “Continue with CUNY Login.”
More details here: ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-lo...
June 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
We’re excited to share that CUNY Login Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available for the CUNY AI Lab Sandbox!
Existing approved users can now sign in with their CUNY credentials by clicking “Continue with CUNY Login.”
More details here: ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-lo...
Existing approved users can now sign in with their CUNY credentials by clicking “Continue with CUNY Login.”
More details here: ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/cuny-lo...
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: CAIL Fellow Nicole Walker writes about building ThinkWith, a tool developed through our vibe-coding workshop series to help composition students make stronger connections between texts and cultural artifacts. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/thinkwi...
The ThinkWith Tool for the Composition Classroom - CUNY AI Lab
A CAIL workshop participant vibe-codes a tool that gives composition students real-time feedback on whether their paragraphs genuinely 'think with' a text — and reflects on what that means for the val...
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June 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: CAIL Fellow Nicole Walker writes about building ThinkWith, a tool developed through our vibe-coding workshop series to help composition students make stronger connections between texts and cultural artifacts. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/thinkwi...
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Got to help out today with the @gctlc.bsky.social's 2026 Critical AI Literacy Institute, in my capacity as a fellow w/ @cunyailab.bsky.social. Such fun & interesting conversations with faculty across CUNY, across disciplines. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #CriticalAI #AILiteracy #CriticalPedagogy
June 11, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Got to help out today with the @gctlc.bsky.social's 2026 Critical AI Literacy Institute, in my capacity as a fellow w/ @cunyailab.bsky.social. Such fun & interesting conversations with faculty across CUNY, across disciplines. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #CriticalAI #AILiteracy #CriticalPedagogy
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: CAIL Fellow @igraywill.bsky.social reflects on building a customized writing timer through our Spring 2026 workshop series on AI-assisted prototyping for digital scholarly projects. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/franken...
Building a Frankentimer With Agentic Coding Assistance - CUNY AI Lab
A CAIL Fellow reflects on building a personal Pomodoro timer through AI-assisted prototyping in the Spring 2026 workshop series — and on the ambivalence of doing so.
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June 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: CAIL Fellow @igraywill.bsky.social reflects on building a customized writing timer through our Spring 2026 workshop series on AI-assisted prototyping for digital scholarly projects. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/franken...
The CUNY AI Lab’s model registry makes the models available in the Sandbox more legible and helps students see AI not as one monolithic chatbot, but as a set of designed systems with different capacities, licences, and limits. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/models/
Model Registry - CUNY AI Lab
CUNY-built AI infrastructure for teaching, learning, and research in public higher education, developed at the CUNY Graduate Center.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu
June 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The CUNY AI Lab’s model registry makes the models available in the Sandbox more legible and helps students see AI not as one monolithic chatbot, but as a set of designed systems with different capacities, licences, and limits. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/models/
The CUNY AI Lab now has a blog! We’ll share updates, notes from CAIL fellows and staff, guest posts from CUNY faculty, students, and staff, and reflections on building public AI infrastructure for teaching and research.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome
ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome
Working with AI, in Public - CUNY AI Lab
Why the CUNY AI Lab is starting a blog, and what to expect from posts here.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu
May 29, 2026 at 1:04 PM
The CUNY AI Lab now has a blog! We’ll share updates, notes from CAIL fellows and staff, guest posts from CUNY faculty, students, and staff, and reflections on building public AI infrastructure for teaching and research.
ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome
ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/welcome
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New post at Visible Pedagogy, @zmuhl.bsky.social of @gctlc.bsky.social and @cunyailab.bsky.social on "Writing Under Surveillance: The Problem with AI Detection."
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Writing Under Surveillance: The Problem with AI Detection
by Zach Muhlbauer During a summer composition course, a LaGuardia student learns their work has come under suspicion that it was written by AI. The instructor claims the student’s spoken and writte…
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May 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
New post at Visible Pedagogy, @zmuhl.bsky.social of @gctlc.bsky.social and @cunyailab.bsky.social on "Writing Under Surveillance: The Problem with AI Detection."
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@zmuhl.bsky.social and the CAIL Fellows presented their work and our initiatives at the annual @cunygcdi.bsky.social digital show case! Stay tuned for more presentations and events! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
May 15, 2026 at 3:54 AM
@zmuhl.bsky.social and the CAIL Fellows presented their work and our initiatives at the annual @cunygcdi.bsky.social digital show case! Stay tuned for more presentations and events! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
May 15, 2026 at 1:11 AM
@zmuhl.bsky.social and the CAIL Fellows presented their work and our initiatives at the annual @cunygcdi.bsky.social digital show case! Stay tuned for more presentations and events! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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And @digitalfellows.bsky.social @cunyailab.bsky.social @manifoldscholar.bsky.social and the program social media fellows! All fantastic!
May 15, 2026 at 12:15 AM
And @digitalfellows.bsky.social @cunyailab.bsky.social @manifoldscholar.bsky.social and the program social media fellows! All fantastic!