Your Career: Time to standardize AI policy

Should everyone on your campus be required to disclose their use of AI tools? ADVERTISEMENT [Your Career Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. Should everyone on your campus be required to disclose their use of AI tools? The start of another fall semester approaches, and wary eyes turn once again to course policies about the use of generative AI. For a lot of faculty members, the last two years have been marked by increasing frustration at the lack of clear guidance from their institutions about AI use in the classroom. From a student’s perspective, enrolling in four or five courses could mean encountering an equal number of different stances on AI use in coursework. Clearly a hodgepodge of institutional and personal policies is not going to help you or your students deal with the impact of AI on teaching. What if, instead, every college (a) required students, faculty members, and administrators to openly disclose the use of these tools, and (b) provided you with a consistent means of showing it? In short, disclosing work that has been produced with the aid of AI would become standard practice. Continue reading: “[Why We Should Normalize Open Disclosure of AI Use]( by Marc Watkins Share your suggestions for the newsletter with Denise Magner, an editor at The Chronicle, at denise.magner@chronicle.com. If you’d like to opt out, you can log in to our website and [manage your newsletter preferences here](. ADVERTISEMENT SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Enjoying the newsletter? [Subscribe today]( for unlimited access to essential news, analysis, and advice. 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