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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts all fields of study and is not subject specific. This guide is here to support research and learning involving Artificial Intelligence.

Documenting Your Use of AI

At a minimum, address and note that generative AI was used in a project. It is important to acknowledge you have used generative AI tools and disclose this information with your instructor, university, and/or journal publication. Do not present AI-generated material as your own.  Refer to the generative AI policy provided by your university, instructor, or journal publication for citation and usage guidelines.

Note: Consult your university, instructor, and/or journal publication guidelines for using generative AI.

Ingredients of a good AI statement:

  • Which tool you used
  • Which version of the tool you used
  • The date and time you used it
  • What task(s) you used it for
  • The prompts you used
  • Copies of the unedited AI outputs
  • Brief summary of what you incorporated into your work, where AI-generated materials appears, and why
  • Formal citation of each tool

Citing Generative AI

The use of generative AI is developing in academia, but its usage and position in education and research is tentative to specific instructors, publishers, and institutions. It’s important to recognize that citing generative AI is complicated by it being a tool that aggregates and provides predictive text rather than it being a source, yet the tool’s growing influence and implementation in the academic environment has prompted citation guidelines.

Before using generative AI, ensure that you are allowed to use generative AI for your work. Defer to your instructor, university, or journal publication for citation style and citation guidelines. If these guidelines are not available, consult with them the resources below before application.