Artificial intelligence (AI) can both facilitate and interfere with learning. As explained in the University of Ottawa Library AI guide, using AI with academic integrity requires paying careful attention to how you use it, what you use it for and how you acknowledge its use.
If considering using AI in your work, reflect, ask yourself questions and confirm your own understanding of the rules with your course professor or thesis supervisor.
Some useful questions to guide you include:
If you’re using AI, make sure it doesn’t hinder your creativity, original thinking and critical reflection. And, especially at higher levels of learning, protect your own intellectual property from platforms that recycle user content you share.
Open conversations between you and your professor or thesis supervisor to promote mutual understanding about what’s at stake within the specific learning context (e.g., an assignment, course or thesis project), and what constitutes acceptable use (or not) within that context, are important. They will help ensure that we continue to work with integrity even with the technological changes taking place regarding AI.
