Introduction#

Note

Most of this content is copied from the subject pages!

Overview#

In this tutorial we will:

  1. Form groups of 4 that will last throughout the entire semester,

    • Tutorial marks will be allocated for the group as a whole

  2. Introduce ourselves to our groups,

  3. Discuss our motivations for taking Ethics of AI,

  4. Look at the structure of the subject throughout the semester.

ChatGPT and Academic Integrity#

Won’t people use ChatGPT to write their essays?

Yes.

How can we be assessed fairly if people are using language models to write?

The essay prompts will be designed around your human skills:

  • academic referencing

    • a minimum of 5 references in the first essay

    • a minimum of 10 in the second

  • understanding of the specific content covered in lectures

  • deep critical thinking

So am I allowed to use it?

Yes. But we know what it’s capable of. Feeding the essay prompts into a language model and submitting the response will not be enough to pass.

Warning

Content produced by language models is NOT your own work. It must be referenced as such to comply with academic integrity.

Knowingly having a third party, including artificial intelligence technologies, write or produce any work (paid or unpaid) that a student submits as their own work for assessment is deliberate cheating and is academic misconduct.

Will this inflate marks?

Maybe? We expect that most students who use these tools won’t synthesize the content of their assessments, but will use them to edit and improve the quality of their writing.

This is welcome, and should result in better quality essays overall.

Whats the official university policy?

The university’s policy on “Artificial Intelligence Tools and Technologies” states:

If a student uses artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT or QuillBot to generate material for assessment that they represent as their own ideas, research and/or analysis, they are NOT submitting their own work. Knowingly having a third party, including artificial intelligence technologies, write or produce any work (paid or unpaid) that a student submits as their own work for assessment is deliberate cheating and is academic misconduct.

If a student uses AI generated material in the preparation of their assessment submission, this must be appropriately acknowledged and cited in accordance with the Assessment and Results Policy.