AI @ LMU: Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
At Loyola Marymount University, we believe that the goal of education is, at its core, about human formation. We understand AI as not simply a set of new tools but an emerging context that is reshaping how we learn, work, create, decide, and relate to one another. Loyola Marymount University prepares students to adapt to technological change by building and practicing the skills that assure human agency. Through research, teaching, and dialogue, we are advancing a human-centered approach that serves the common good.
Our Protocols
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Lead
LMU faculty approach AI as both a tool and an object of inquiry. Drawing on their research expertise, they are driving policy, partnering with industry, and changing the conversation about AI. Through this work, our faculty are helping to shape a world where technology serves human needs and human inquiry drives technological innovation.
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Computer science professor Jared Coleman organized a three-day workshop exploring how AI can responsibly support the preservation and revitalization of endangered Indigenous languages. Funded by a $50,000 National Science Foundation grant, the event brought together more than 60 Indigenous community members, researchers, technologists, linguists, educators, and students.
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Professor Mairead Sullivan is leading a three-year, $431,000 Mellon Foundation–funded project examining artificial intelligence through disability studies. The initiative asks how AI defines intelligence, ability, productivity, communication, and acceptable ways of being human.
Read: AI and Disability Studies
Law School faculty are leading conversations on the future of policy and regulation for Artificial Intelligence as well as technologies use and impact in legal professions.
AI, the Law, and the New Rules of PowerLearn
Our Jesuit and Marymount educational traditions call us to preserve the durable skills that assure our students not only make it, but make it matter, in a rapidly changing world.
Our signature curricular programs are carefully crafted to provide our students with a shared intellectual foundation, equipping them with the capacities of reflective judgement, ethical decision-making, creativity, and agency required to navigate a technologically advanced world.
Every student at LMU completes our Core Curriculum. The Core Curriculum is a shared set of classes that provides the intellectual foundation of an LMU education. Core course focus on building fundamental skills in critical thinking, asking novel questions, engaging complexity, making ethical judgements, communicating with clarity, and drawing connections across different ways of knowing. Put differently, our Core Curriculum ensures that every LMU graduate is prepared not simply to use emerging technologies, but to understand, evaluate, and shape the world they are creating.
At LMU, we believe that education is fundamentally about formation. How students approach learning is just as important as what they learn. The Intellectual Character Initiative is a campus-wide commitment to forming students with the habits and capacities for lifelong learning. Through the Virtues of the Lion Mind—curiosity, intellectual humility, intellectual autonomy, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual perseverance—we cultivate the intellectual character students need to pursue knowledge, exercise good judgment, think for themselves, and continue learning throughout their lives.
Programs and Courses
Post Grad Certificate in AI
The Post Grad Certificate in AI will deepen your knowledge in specialized areas like machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, agile software development, secure software development, and cybersecurity.
Cognitive Science Minor
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The Cognitive Science minor explores the mind, intelligence, and human cognition through an interdisciplinary lens.
Applied Data Analysis Minor
The Applied Data Analysis Minor strengthens students’ skills in methods of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data.
Master of Science in Business Analytics
The M.S. in Business Analytics prepares students to transform complex data into actionable business insights.
Adapt
In the classroom and beyond, we are adapting by exploring new tools, redesigning assignments and processes, and building frameworks to determine when—and when not—to use AI.
Whether you’re teaching, researching, or exploring new tools, these LMU resources can help you use AI thoughtfully, securely, and responsibly.
Policy & Leadership
Faculty & Teaching
Staff & AI Tool Users
Students & Researchers
News & Events: Join the Conversation About AI @ LMU
Responding to change requires input and engagement from us all. Join us at an upcoming event or training. Follow along to see how LMU is leading, learning, and adapting.
We Want to Hear From You
AI is evolving quickly, and the conversation is better with your voice in it. Share your questions, ideas, experiences, or concerns to help shape how our LMU community approaches AI—together.