Artificial Intelligence Resources: Home

This is a space for us to share resources that address concerns about artificial intelligence - including but not limited to ChatGPT - and higher education. As more resources come in, I will attempt to curate and synthesize the information available. To begin with, I have forefronted a few recommended sources that I believe provide excellent, high-level overviews of the subject and should provide everything you need to know in a relatively short amount of time. 

Included below are a few excerpts for quick reference: Rudolph et al.'s (2023) recommendations for institutions of higher education, the results of a flash poll conducted by the CIC (2023) on whether institutions had implemented changes, and Cambridge University's ethics policy on the use of AI in scholarship.

Rudolph, Tan, and Tan (2023, p. 13) make the following recommendations for higher education institutions:

• realise that digital literacy education is of critical importance and has to include AI tools, which should be part of the curriculum
• avoid the creation of an environment where faculty is too overworked to engage and motivate their students
• conduct training for faculty on AI tools such as ChatGPT
• provide training on academic integrity for students
• avoid offering curricula and courses that do not make sense to students
• update academic integrity policies and/or honour codes that include the use of AI tools
• specifically, develop policies and clear, easy-to-understand guidelines for the use of language models in learning and teaching – the guidelines should include information on the proper use of these tools and the consequences for cheating
• encourage, support and share research on AI tools’ effects on learning and teaching

As of March 2, 2023, few schools had implemented changes to policy, although many were considering it. Slightly over half of schools surveyed had created groups to discuss the situation. More recently, an article by D'Agostino (March 22, 2023) shows that only a minority of faculty and administrators have implemented policy changes, even as the updated GPT-4 emerged. 

On March 14, 2023, Cambridge University published an ethics policy on the use of AI in scholarship. Their policy provides a strong model to follow:

• AI use must be declared and clearly explained in publications such as research papers, just as we expect scholars to do with other software, tools and methodologies.
• AI does not meet the Cambridge requirements for authorship, given the need for accountability. AI and LLM tools may not be listed as an author on any scholarly work published by Cambridge
• Authors are accountable for the accuracy, integrity and originality of their research papers, including for any use of AI.
• Any use of AI must not breach Cambridge’s plagiarism policy. Scholarly works must be the author’s own, and not present others’ ideas, data, words or other material without adequate citation and transparent referencing.