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AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT

AI detection tools

Many educators don't support the use of AI writing detectors

These detectors result in both false negatives and false positives, which can result in tagging a student paper as written by AI when it wasn't.

In addition, if your native language isn't English, these tools will often tag your writing as written by AI. See GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers - Weixin Liang, et al.

More information

Nobody wins in an academic integrity arms race - The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Making ChatGPT detectors part of our education system prioritizes surveillance over trust - George Veletsianos, professor of education at Royal Roads University
What to do if you are falsely accused of cheating with AI - Dr. Lydon Walker, YouTube
Vanderbilt University's Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI Detector

Instructors are creating classroom policies on the use of generative AI.

Course Policies for Using AI (MTSU)
Suggested policy statements for different levels of AI use in the classrooms.

Generative AI Syllabus Guidelines, August 2023 - PDF (University of Arizona)
Contains ideas for classroom policies.

Guidelines from other universities

Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools (collected by Lance Eaton)
A crowdsourced collection of classroom policies on use of ChatGPT and other AI tools.

See also:

Princeton University
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of Pennslyvania
University of Wisconsin, Madison (includes classroom activities)
Yale University

These guides (one for instructors & one for students) are adaptations of guides created at the University of Arizona Libraries by Nicole Hennig with contributions by Michelle Halla, Nicole Pagowsky, Niamh Wallace.

Feel free to copy this guide, in part or in its entirety, in your own LibGuide.

Please attribute “University of Arizona Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”