GAI Policy questions
designator | Issue | Decision / Reference | Concerns and Considerations | Status |
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1 | Expectations of privacy for GAI access through Harvard licensing or on Harvard systems, for staff, faculty, students. | Resolved | ||
2 | Limitations on what information can be uploaded for GAI queries. Student records? CVs of job applicants? | Public tools - AI Service Page and Initial Guidelines Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | This could be a question of interpretation of current policies. | Resolved |
3 | Declaration of use- if GAI tools are used to compose emails, memos, letters of recc, should this be declared? | Public tools - AI Service Page and Initial Guidelines Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | Resolved | |
4 | Can GAI tools be used in the preparation of senior theses and PhD dissertations? If so, what attribution is appropriate? | EPC, GPC | School and Academic Integrity Guidelines would apply | Pending discussion |
5 | Is it appropriate to use GAI tools for automated 'grading'? | No | School and Academic Integrity Guidelines would apply | Resolved |
6 | who 'owns' student-generated coursework? Can they upload it? Can instructors? | Pending discussion | ||
7 | What subset of GAI tools can we use, that avoids uploaded material being used as training data? | Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | Resolved | |
8 | How do we evaluate, and on what criteria, potential tools and vendor offers? | AI Sandbox Development Limited tool availability Exploring OpenAI Enterprise | ||
9 | Ingesting student work in order to generate feedback, where the student has recognizable IP on the table (e.g. an essay submission) | Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
10 | Ingesting student work in order to generate feedback, where the student arguably does not have recognizable IP on the table (e.g. a relatively rudimentary problem set) | Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
11 | Compelling students to ingest their own work as part of a second-order activity (e.g. compose a response to an instructor-provided prompt, ask AI for feedback on it, then respond to the feedback) | Sandbox - Terms of Use, Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
12 | Ingesting a copyrighted publication (e.g. journal article) for analysis or summary | General information regarding copyright and fair use may be found here. | ||
13 | Ingesting a publically available dataset (e.g. from gov't agency) for analysis | Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
14 | Ingesting a dataset comprising students' own data (e.g. every student enrolled in a course tracks their sleep for a week) for analysis | Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
15 | Ingesting an interview transcript from human subjects research for analysis | Research Data Classification Examples, | ||
16 | Ingesting documents not covered by US copyright law, per se, but understood to be part of a community patrimony in which access is graned relationally | General information regarding copyright and fair use may be found here. | ||
17 | Prompting AI to produce offensive or dangerous content | Terms of Use, |
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