$1 million AI grant to be shared by California universities

(The Center Square) – A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will go toward paying for artificial intelligence classes and other on-campus programs at two Inland Empire-area universities, according to officials and educators.

University of California, Riverside and California State University, San Bernardino will each get portions of that $1 million, with $600,000 going to CSU San Bernardino and $400,000 going to UC Riverside, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino.

Professors at UC Riverside want to use the grant to pay for an AI minor, student research projects and other programs.

The grant follows a Legislative Analyst’s report in August showing that enthusiasm about AI technology has contributed to a 50% rise in the stock market in the last two years. A “meteoric rise” in the valuation of a handful of big tech companies in California, including Amazon, Meta and Google, ha...