AI Literacy Guide 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 whether and how to use it.

• See this crowdsourced list of policies on use of generative AI from other universities.
• And some ideas from the University of Kent: How should we talk to students about Generative AI?
• From AI to A+: Prepare Your Students for Using ChatGPT and other AI - Ryan Watkins, George Washington University

Help students understand why giving credit is important

You may also be interested in the University of Arizona Libraries Creative Commons tutorials for students. It's focused on why it's important to give credit to the work of others.
How Do I Give Credit to the Ideas of Others?

Plagiarism

Go beyond traditional citations

Professor Ethan Mollick (see above), 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).

Citing

Here are the guidelines for citing generative AI in MLA Style, APA Style, and Chicago Manual of Style.

For guidelines on citing other formats of generative AI, see How to Cite AI Tools: A Guide for Students.

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

• Science Journals policy: "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.”

Other publishers are also coming out with statements like these.

We are still learning how to ethically use and cite generative AI resources. As such, err on the side of transparency if you use one. Here are some ideas for citing generative AI responsibly:

• Save a transcript of your chat. Make it available to or retrievable by your reader, possibly by including it as an appendix to your work or as an online supplement.
• Describe the prompt that generated the specific ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude response.
• Include the date when the response was generated or date of access. This is important as these tools will update regularly.
• Acknowledge how you used the tool. You can do this even if you only use generative AI to plan your paper or generate ideas and don't include any of its generated content.