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Artificial Intelligence, A Student Guide

A guide for using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence in your college work.

Some Harm Considerations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by Rebecca Sweetman is used here under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Other Ethical Considerations of AI

Copyright and intellectual property: Materials used to create AI data sets are largely taken without permission or informed consent, and it has not yet been legally determined who owns its outputs. Consider how using this tool might complicate our understanding of academic integrity and what it means to “do your own work.”

Labor issues: Like many technological tools we rely on, ChatGPT is made usable because of underpaid and traumatic labor in the Global South. Consider how using this tool might trouble our collective values relating to EDI and decolonial principles.

Discrimination: Because AI data sets come from our real world, with all its inherent racism, ableism, sexism, etc., AI tools can also generate discriminatory outcomes. Consider how using this tool might trouble our understanding of equitable inclusion.

Climate change: Developing sophisticated Generative AI is not carbon neutral. Consider how using this tool might trouble our sustainability values.