Academic Integrity (AI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) - AI Squared

Generative AI 

Is changing the landscape and affecting all fields.

Has implications for education and learning. 

Is changing information discovery. 

Offers tremendous possibilities and potentials. 

May be appropriately used by students

Students may appropriately utilise generative AI for:

• Overviews
• Grammar checks
• Improving writing
• Improving language
• Improving learning and the like.

Here is a video on how ChatGPT may be ethically utilised by students and teachers

Generative AI it also brings in it wake flaws and issues.

Open AI has indicated some limitations:

• Social biases
• Hallucinations
• Adversarial prompts

There is also a need for ethical, appropriate and responsible use of, AI in information seeking, utilisation and synthesing behaviors.  

(AI) tools raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism (Cotton et al, 2023)

If a person tries to pass off the response of a generative AI chatbot as their own they are compromising AI (Academic Integrity) and committing the academic crime of plagiarism.  This can be done in subtle ways, for example:  

1. By copying without attribution (Verbatim/Direct)
2. By borrowing phrases without quotation marks or replacing certain words with synonyms (Mosaic/Patchwriting/Paraphrasing). 

These are both examples of plagiarism.

A few components of academic integrity include honesty, proper citations and no unauthoried assistance. Therefore,

• The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools should be authorised and allowed by your school before you can utilise it. 
•  Further, when it is utilised it should be done so honestly and with proper citations.

The 21st century reality is that

• Technology will continue to advance.
• Information is available at our fingertips. 
• The information superhighway is monstrous. 
• The ease and convenience provided is tempting. 

In light of this, we all have a duty to engage ethically and responsibly with the various tools at our disposal.

• AI (Artificial Intelligence) affords a lot of possibilities in locating and accessing information. 
• AI (Academic Integrity) should guide in the utilisation and synthesis of information.

• While AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools will constantly change, AI (Academic Integrity) must remain constant.

Exercise AI (Academic Integrity) in engaging with AI (Artificial Intelligence) by,

• Reflecting on the information gained. 
• Recording proper notes.
• Revising your papers and assignments.
• Referencing and citing sources appropriately.