Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how we do many things, including how we teach and learn. It is critically important to dialogue with others, including your instructor, in all parts of your learning process, including when you are considering using or using AI.
USask has practical guidance for how principles may be applied in four common roles at USask. Though we recognize that many people at USask hold multiple roles, the guidelines have specific guidance and resources tailored to teaching, learning, research and administration on campus.
Learn To
- Recognize when and how you are using AI, and how this impacts your learning
- Prioritize your creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, using AI to complement your learning
- Explore the current and future use of AI in your field of study and potential workplaces. Research and choose appropriate tools to leverage
- Use a CLEAR framework to interact with AI, refining what you do or ask to obtain relevant and desired results. Modify what you do or ask using AI to increase accuracy, reduce bias, and improve quality of AI outputs, and to evaluate the quality of what you receive from AI .
- Action: Verify the information provided by AI with credible sources and use it as a supplement, rather than a replacement, for traditional search methods.
Use Responsibly
- Use AI to support your learning, not to replace or misrepresent your learning.
- Action: Follow the rules laid out by instructors about use of AI to act with integrity and avoid academic misconduct .
- Action: Seek clarification about expectations early and often.
- Action: prioritize dialogue with your instructor and peers over dialogue with conversational AI.
- Identify when and how you are using AI and use citation, disclosure, and acknowledgement processes appropriately, given the circumstances.
- Action: Seek clarification about when its use is appropriate because instructions may not be explicit enough, and instructors may not consider this until they are asked.
- Action: Expect to be asked by instructors about your process for producing content, including your process for working with or prompting AI.
- Act respectfully after considering the ethics surrounding a range of AI uses in your personal, academic, and professional life.
Protect Yourself
- Choose tools that are USask approved for your privacy and security rather than other GenAI tools.
- Action: Safeguard your privacy and security. Ensure you use a unique username and password and avoid reusing your NSID and NSID password.
- Because many AI tools retain what you put into them, do not use other people’s work without authorization.
- Action: Your work should not be entered into AI detection or other third-party tools without your permission.
- Advocate for AI policies across contexts that protect privacy, security, transparency and environmental sustainability.