The university proposed Adoption responsible for artificial intelligence tools for teaching and learning is open to online comments for the next academic year, but submissions before July 31 will have priority.
The framework was announced on May 6, offering directives for teachers and students on how to use the AI ​​in class responsible. The working group, which sought and wrote the guidelines for the frame, accepts comments and responses before finalizing the guidelines in the fall semester.
“Hope was that we could create guiding principles for people when they actually assess the tools of use and their teaching,” said Kasey Ford, designer of AI at the Academic Technology Office. “Hope is that we will be able to build this to disseminate things like guides and relationships that people can seek tools that will solve certain problems for them but which also belong to this manager.”
The guidelines were made after six months of research and consultation with IA experts and teachers across the campus. The framework contains eight guidelines for the use of AI, in particular intention, management and relations.
“The principle that resonated the most with (a group of AI) was relations,” said Ford. “Often, when you read data governance or how to integrate AI into education, people do not talk about the social and relational aspects of the use of these tools and to ensure that even if we can use AI for all kinds of things, we are still focusing on peers, teachers and students of the wider campus community.”
AI teachers on campus have expressed their support for these directives, saying that they do not hinder the use of AI while providing a reasonable and positive direction to students and teachers.
“It is in fact very good that the university is clear and direct on responsible means (in which AI can be used),” said Peter Stone, director of Texas Robotics. “There is still a lot of uncertainty, both on the side of the teachers and on the side of the students, on the right way, pedagogically, to use these tools.”
Sharon Strover, a journalism professor who helped write the directives, said that she would like to implement examples of AI that students could meet in the future to provide additional orientation.
“This document would be really useful if we both offer a few examples and requested more so that we can have a group (sandbox) where people could say:” This is how I use it, and here are the strengths, here are the weaknesses, “said Strover.
Although the prioritization of the open commentary period ends on July 31 for the changes to be implemented in the fall, the university plans to continue to accept suggestions and allow the periods of open comments to improve the proposed framework every six months.
“We are very aware that this is a type of acts of rapidly evolving facts in higher education, with higher education and AI,” said Ford. “We started with the idea that it could be around the generator, but we just started to expand the framework of all kinds of AI technologies because there are constant innovations.”
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