Overview
As new artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue to expand into digital spaces, it is important for you as a student to consider how their use may impact your academic, personal, and professional growth. These tools are often referred to as “generative AI” because of the content they “generate.”
Please review your instructor's rules about generative AI in each of your courses. These rules refer to such apps as ChatGPT, Grammarly, Microsoft Copilot, Bing Chat, Gemini, Midjourney, Tome, Runway, or similar tools.
- While these apps can be convenient and helpful in some circumstances, they also have troublesome limitations, such as, making up incorrect facts and fake citations (“hallucinating”), generating code that produces inaccurate outputs, and generating images that can be offensive.
- Because many of these apps are based on “large language models” (LLMs) and are programmed using human feedback, they may contain social biases and a lack of protections for workers.
General guidelines:
- Submitting the work of generative AI as your own work, when an assignment does not explicitly allow for it, constitutes academic dishonesty.
- Using generative AI as a form of brainstorming or starter text, etc. must be approved by the instructor. As AI continues to expand, it is important to be mindful of how it shapes your thinking and your ability to learn.
- Note that privacy and terms of use policies of generative AI apps may not have been vetted by Normandale, so you would be using these tools at your own risk.
Classroom guidelines:
- Your responsibility as a student is to build your own critical thinking skills in each academic task, while following your instructor's course requirements and the college’s student code of conduct.