SAMPLE AI POLICY FOR SCHOOLS (not AI-generated)

At (fill in blank school), we embrace innovation and endeavor to prepare our students for success in a rapidly-changing world. Recognizing that AI is a tool that has the ability to both harm and enhance human dignity, we are called by our mission to educate our students to be a voice for dignity and model principled leadership in how they choose to use AI in their personal, educational, and professional lives.

Our approach to artificial intelligence centers on three guiding principles:

1. AI is a tool to enhance human creativity but does not replace human thought, voice, emotion, and relationships.
2. AI is fallible, biased, and inconsistent, and therefore requires critical scrutiny in all aspects of its use.
3. AI is an opportunity for students to act with integrity and embrace their educational courage.

Given that generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, has become an integral tool in most academic and career settings, students can expect that teachers will provide opportunities and encouragement to use AI within strict guidelines. Students acknowledge that in using AI as a tool to support learning, they are prohibited from using artificial intelligence tools as a shortcut to learning or a means to bypass or produce work without genuine understanding.

Students are prohibited from using artificial tools beyond what individual teachers expressly permit. Deviations from the teachers’ guidelines will be considered a violation of academic integrity. If a teacher has not expressly permitted the use of AI, then by default students are prohibited from using any and all Artificial Intelligence tools, large language model (LLM) tools, or essay writing services to guide, brainstorm, draft, create, edit, or revise work related to any assessment or assignment, including written assessments, projects, and performance tasks.

As with any resource, our school expects students to cite their sources and note the use of resources when completing assignments. If a student has used AI according to the teacher’s directions, they must still cite any and all AI resources used according to the specified citation style. Turning in work written by others or by generative AI resources as if it were the student's own without citation/attribution is plagiarism, which represents a violation of the Student Handbook and will be considered a serious academic infraction.

*Please note that this is subject to change due to the quickly changing landscape of technology.