A Graduate Center Initiative
AI Infrastructure for CUNY, by CUNY
The CUNY AI Lab is a faculty- and staff-led initiative that develops and maintains AI tools for teaching, learning, and research. We prioritize privacy, transparency, and thoughtful integration of AI into academic work.
Guiding Principles
Privacy by Design
We use providers that don't retain or train on user data
Transparency
We prioritize open-weight models that can be examined and understood
Environmental Accountability
Tools include visibility into computational costs
Criticality
AI literacy over AI dependency
What access includes
One application covers everything the Lab runs. Approved members sign in with their CUNY Login.
Chat sandbox
Talk with AI models in a shared workspace. Your conversations and documents stay in your account, and you can switch models whenever you like.
Open the chat sandbox →API keys
Make your own keys for the Lab's model endpoint and use them from your own code or any OpenAI-compatible tool. You manage your keys yourself, and every membership includes a monthly spending limit you can check at any time.
Read the API key guide →Studios
Build an academic website in Site Studio or run research tasks in Agent Studio. Both work in the browser and save your projects to your Lab account.
See the tools →Teaching with AI? Apply for a class and your students join through an invitation link during the course dates, with no individual applications.Apply for a class →