AI in Aalto
At Aalto University, we conduct research in AI, develop AI technologies, teach AI and apply AI in our work and learning.
Read more to learn how Aalto provides internal productised AI services to Aalto staff and students.
Aalto AI Assistant, our own ChatGPT
AI Assistant is a chat-based tool for Aalto personnel and students. It is connected to the same language model that ChatGPT uses, and all data entered there stays on Aalto’s servers. You can use it for translations, text polishing, content creation and brainstorming.
AI news
Aalto, Sitra and Lovable launch AI Summer Program
A new summer program brings together students, Finnish public sector organisations and AI tools to develop digital services.
Creative Teaching in the Age of AI: What Changes – and What Stays the Same?
Nearly a hundred Aalto teachers and education professionals gathered at Marsio Presents: Creative Teaching in the Age of AI to explore how rapidly evolving AI tools are changing teaching practices, while core goals like critical thinking, motivation, real-world problem solving and human interaction remain essential. Keynotes, teacher examples, and thematic dialogue sessions highlighted concrete ways to use AI as a responsible partner in teaching, and showed a strong appetite for ongoing, peer-based pedagogical dialogue and sharing of good practices.
Aalto Inventors turns one: A year of bridging research and real-world impact
Aalto Inventors marks its first anniversary, having engaged 190 researchers across six cohorts in fields including AI, quantum, and biomaterials. New cohorts are planned for the next academic year, stay tuned and join the waitlist.
AI Spotlight 04-2026: AI related events, trainings, news and tips for Aaltonians
Here you can pick AI news, spring events, and tool updates to use in your own or your unit's communications.AI events
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
Join and ask anything about research data management and open science.
AI Training 11 May – Getting Started with Generative AI – Safe and Responsible Use at Aalto (in English)
This training introduces Aalto’s generative AI tools and how to use them responsibly in your studies, teaching, or daily work. You'll learn how the Aalto AI Assistant works, what kind of content is safe to use with AI, and how to write effective prompts.
AI Training 11 May – Getting Started with Generative AI – Safe and Responsible Use at Aalto (in Finnish)
Aalto’s generative AI tools and how to use them responsibly in your studies, teaching, or daily work. In this training, you'll learn how the Aalto AI Assistant works, what kind of content is safe to use with AI, and how to write effective prompts.
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
Join and ask anything about research data management and open science.
Learn the basics of AI
Self-study in MyCourses: Course: Artificial intelligence in your work and studies
Organised trainings: AI Training for the Entire Aalto Community
Prompt book: hands-on examples
Generative AI services
Below you can find a few examples of the AI services available for Aaltonians.
For more information on Aalto's official and productized AI services, AI services from School of Science (SCI) and third-party AI services please see the AI Services page.
- Aalto AI Assistant, our own ChatGPT. A chat-based tool for Aalto personnel and students for translations, text polishing, content creation and brainstorming.
- API services for building your own apps. Aalto staff can build their own apps with AI APIs.
- AI supported translation and multilingual features in our official tools, like Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint and Panopto
Artificial intelligence systems and copyright, by Legal Services
For AI system users, the main questions concern the right to use works as input data in an AI system and how to cite the output generated by an AI system.
For developers of AI models and AI systems, copyright issues concern the right to use works as training data for AI models and the transparency obligations regarding the works used as training data.
Artificial intelligence systems and copyright
House of AI
The centre brings together top researchers and companies to develop new applications and possibilities for artificial intelligence
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI
A community of experts that brings together top talents in academia, industry and the public sector to solve real-life problems using both existing and novel AI.
Chat with aalto.fi feature
Chat with aalto.fi is a conversational chatbot that replies to questions about Aalto University as long as the content is available on www.aalto.fi.
