GAI Policy questions

designatorIssueDecision / ReferenceConcerns and ConsiderationsStatus
1Expectations of privacy for GAI access through Harvard licensing or on Harvard systems, 
for staff, faculty, students.

Terms of Use


   Resolved
2Limitations 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
3Declaration 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
4Can GAI tools be used in the preparation of senior theses and PhD dissertations? If so, what attribution is appropriate? EPC, GPCSchool and Academic Integrity Guidelines would apply   Pending discussion
5Is it appropriate to use GAI tools for automated 'grading'? NoSchool and Academic Integrity Guidelines would apply  Resolved 
6who 'owns' student-generated coursework? Can they upload it? Can instructors? 

Pending discussion
7What 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
8How do we evaluate, and on what criteria, potential tools and vendor offers? 

AI Sandbox Development

Limited tool availability

Exploring OpenAI Enterprise



9Ingesting 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

10Ingesting 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

11Compelling 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

12Ingesting a copyrighted publication (e.g. journal article) for analysis or summary

General information regarding copyright and fair use may be found here.



13Ingesting a publically available dataset (e.g. from gov't agency) for analysisResearch Data Classification Examples

14Ingesting a dataset comprising students' own data (e.g. every student enrolled in a course tracks their sleep for a week) for analysisResearch Data Classification Examples

15Ingesting an interview transcript from human subjects research for analysisResearch Data Classification Examples

16Ingesting documents not covered by US copyright law, per se, but understood to be part of a community patrimony in which access is graned relationallyGeneral information regarding copyright and fair use may be found here.

17Prompting AI to produce offensive or dangerous contentTerms of Use,

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