Colleges are piloting AI assistants trained on institutional content while publishing frameworks for responsible campus deployment. Utah Valley University rolled out Ask Wilson, an AI coach embedded in Canvas that answers course questions and generates study guides. Meanwhile, vendor and practitioner guidance urges four steps — governance, data controls, risk assessment and continuous monitoring — to build trusted, sustainable campus AI. For CIOs and academic leaders the message is operational: prioritize data governance, privacy compliance and faculty training before broad rollouts. Early pilots show student‑facing AI can scale tutoring and advising, but institutions must pair deployments with evaluation metrics, equity checks and escalation paths for errors.