Artificial Intelligence | ChatGPT for Instructors

Discuss the Use of ChatGPT with Students

You can help students care about being transparent in their use. Discuss ChatGPT and create a policy for how (and whether) to use it.

• Crowdsourced List of University Generative AI Policies.
• How Should We Talk to Students about Generative AI?  University of Kent. 
• From AI to A+: Prepare Your Students for Using ChatGPT and Other AI.  Ryan Watkins, George Washington University.

Help Students Understand

Provide information to students on why it's important to give credit to the work of others.  The University of Arizona's tutorial for students, entitled How Do I Give Credit to the Ideas of Others? may be of help.

Go Beyond Traditional Citations

Professor Ethan Mollick, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, author of author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter and the book Co-Intelligence,  recommends going beyond traditional citations. He asks his students to include an appendix to their papers, where they list each prompt they used in ChatGPT and discuss how they revised those prompts to get better output.

See Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts (March 17, 2023).

Citation Guidelines

Guidelines for citing generative AI in 

• MLA Style
• APA Style
• Chicago Manual of Style

For guidelines on citing other formats of generative AI, see:

•  How to Cite AI Tools: A Guide for Students.

Publisher Policies

Here are some statements from academic publishers regarding the use of generative AI.

• Science Journals. "Text generated from AI, machine learning, or similar algorithmic tools cannot be used in papers published in Science journals"
• Nature publishers: "... researchers using LLM tools should document this use in the methods or acknowledgements sections.”
• Taylor & Francis.  Clarifies the responsible use of AI tools in academic content creation.
• Cambridge University Press.

  • 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.

  • Please note individual journals may have more specific requirements or guidelines for upholding this policy.

Other publishers are also coming out with statements like these.