UK Universities Draw Up Guiding Principles on Generative AI

UK universities have drawn up a set of guiding principles to ensure that students and staff are AI literate, as the sector struggles to adapt teaching and assessment methods to deal with the growing use of generative artificial intelligence. From a report: Vice-chancellors at the 24 Russell Group research-intensive universities have signed up to the code. They say this will help universities to capitalise on the opportunities of AI while simultaneously protecting academic rigour and integrity in higher education. While once there was talk of banning software like ChatGPT within education to prevent cheating, the guidance says students should be taught to use AI appropriately in their studies, while also making them aware of the risks of plagiarism, bias and inaccuracy in generative AI.

Staff will also have to be trained so they are equipped to help students, many of whom are already using ChatGPT in their assignments. New ways of assessing students are likely to emerge to reduce the risk of cheating. All 24 Russell Group universities have reviewed their academic conduct policies and guidance to reflect the emergence of generative AI. The new guidance says: "These policies make it clear to students and staff where the use of generative AI is inappropriate, and are intended to support them in making informed decisions and to empower them to use these tools appropriately and acknowledge their use where necessary."

Entirely new bureaucracy

[Antique Geekmeister]

Trust the British to invent an entirely new bureaucracy to overlay any actual use of a new technology and absorb all the money and actual effort in developing it.

Here's a conundrum

[sabbede]

So, if a student develops and trains an AI, from scratch, that aces all the rest of his coursework, does he get thrown out or a awarded a master's degree?

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[ranton]

So, if a student develops and trains an AI, from scratch, that aces all the rest of his coursework, does he get thrown out or a awarded a master's degree?

Depends on what he is getting a degree in. If the degree is in computer science then he has probably earned the degree. If the degree is in English literature then probably not. Then again, based on the quality of essays I have seen out of Chat GPT so far if the AI can complete an English literature coursework then the degree is either worthless or he deserves a computer science PhD and a $50 million investment from some VC.

Eh.

[Motleypuss]

Probably drawn up using generative AI, knowing our country.

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