Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education

Official policy from Harvard Business School. Faculty "may allow the use of ChatGPT and similar technologies in some circumstances". Citation is required and guidance will evolve as these technologies evolve.

The Honor Council sent an email to all undergraduates on April 11th, 2023, announcing an Honor Code amendment explicitly prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT without proper citation. Additionally, the email clarified professors’ right to ban the use of AI software for their classes. “Utilizing AI software to generate ideas and pass them off as one’s own will also be considered plagiarism and will be adjudicated as such by the Honor Council,” the email said. The email also clarifies that use of AI software “for your own study purposes is allowable.”

Absent a clear statement from an instructor, use of or consultation with generative AI shall be treated analogously to assistance from another person. In particular, using generative AI tools to substantially complete an assignment or exam (e.g. by entering exam or assignment questions) is not permitted. Students should acknowledge the use of generative AI (other than incidental use) and default to disclosing such assistance when in doubt.

The UCLA Student Conduct Code states, “Unless otherwise specified by the faculty member, all submissions, whether in draft or final form, to meet course requirements (including a paper, project, exam, computer program, oral presentation, or other work) must either be the student’s own work, or must clearly acknowledge the source.” Unless an instructor indicates otherwise, the use of ChatGPT or other AI tools for course assignments is akin to receiving assistance from another person and raises the same concern that work is not the student’s own. ... The ultimate decision and responsibility for how to teach about AI and the establishment of or revision of course policies related to its use lies with the instructor.

This advisory provides guidance on how to acceptably use AI Tools safely, without putting institutional, personal, or proprietary information at risk. Additional guidance may be forthcoming as circumstances evolve.

The WSU Office for Teaching and Learning (OTL) has gathered suggestions for using ChatGPT from POD listserv discussions and chats. Here are some ideas to consider: Embrace the tools used in the real world. Try to think about how or if this task would be done in the real world or workplace. Would they use AI to help them do some task? Then let students use it, too. Have students generate something with AI and then discuss how to improve on it. Or how it could be used to in the professional world to speed up tedious or repetitive tasks.

Individual instructors decide on whether AI tools may be used in their courses. Instructors should be clear and transparent about which tools are allowed and which ones are not, and the reasons for any restrictions.

ASU faculty and administrators are focused on the positive potential of generative AI while also thinking through concerns about ethics, academic integrity, and privacy. The Provost’s Office is currently reviewing ASU’s academic integrity policy through the lens of what kind of content can be produced through generative AI and what kind of learning behaviors and outcomes are expected of students. Students are advised to confer with instructors about their course policies regarding AI use before using AI tools in their coursework.

All content generated through the use of ChatGPT is to be understood and identified as “co-authored” by the user and the AI. To mitigate the possible risks of AI-generated content, OpenAI (the creators of ChatGPT) have developed their own Sharing & Publication Policy.

This resource was created by Lance Eaton, for the purpose of sharing and helping other instructors see various policies made by other educators, to help in the development of their own policy development.

This resource from the CTE provides instructors with background on ChatGPT and guidance on how to best design coursework in response to emerging AI tools.

This spreadsheet details the AI policies of 100 American universities. It is current through June 2023 and updated as circumstances change.

This resource from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost provides instructors with sample ChatGPT policies. Sample statements cover allowing ChatGPT usage, allowing limited ChatGPT usage, and prohibiting ChatGPT usage completely.