BU announces guidelines for AI in classrooms
New England Council member, Boston University, announced its adoption of new guidelines concerning generative artificial intelligence in the classroom environment. According to the guidelines, BU is allowing students and faculty to embrace AI, but must give credit when they are used as well as banning its use on in-class exams and assignments.
Professor Wesley Wildman and his Data, Society, and Ethics class drafted and proposed the guidelines to implement AI in the curriculum, emphasizing fairness and honesty in their policies. In turn, the policies are flexible to allow for a variety of uses, while still allowing students and faculty to explore new ways to use technology and intelligence.
“It’s going to be a part of our species forever now,” said Professor Wildman. “We can’t treat it like plagiarism, like it’s something else.”
The New England Council commends Boston University for the adoption of these important guidelines.
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