The Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statement below was sent to SUNY Oswego faculty by Provost Scott Furlong on January 21, 2025. A PDF version of this statement can be found linked directly from SUNY Oswego's Artificial Intelligence page.
Generative Artificial Intelligence can be seen as a useful tool for you and your students. Of course, like any tool, it can be abused and misused, and the quickly changing nature of AI makes it difficult to predict how it could be used in the future. All faculty should include a clear AI policy in their syllabi to their classes that delineates where it may be acceptable/appropriate to use AI in the class and where it is not acceptable/appropriate to use AI (see below for example syllabi language).
The extent to which Artificial Intelligence may be used (or not) is at the discretion of each instructor for each of their classes. Possible AI uses in class may include idea generation at the early stages of a project, proofreading, self-testing, literature search and summary, etc.
The following AI resources are available:
Students are allowed to use AI tools but must properly cite them as sources in their work. See SUNY Oswego’s Penfield Library Guide (see above). This example should not necessarily be viewed as allowing free use of AI; a faculty member can still indicate when and how students can use AI. For example, faculty may allow the use of AI for proofreading and editing purposes only. However, in whatever case students should acknowledge any work that is created with the assistance of AI in some way, whether via citation, explanation of process, or some other reference.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools are readily available, and hiring authorities may expect you to have experience with these tools. For this course, you may use these tools to [INSERT ALLOWANCE], unless otherwise specified for individual assignments or assessments. However, faculty expect that if you make use of these tools, you do so in a responsible and ethical manner. You are responsible for the integrity and quality of your work, so it is important to recognize that GAI has inherent limitations, and human supervision is necessary to verify the quality and appropriateness of the output. You should carefully review all your work for accuracy and suitability prior to submission.
Please review the library’s AI Citation Guide so you can correctly cite AI if you choose to incorporate it in your work.
Faculty are prohibiting the use of AI tools for assistance in work that students submit.
Using generative AI tools can bypass the process of learning and improving critical thinking and writing/communication. As such, you may not use AI tools for any submitted work, assignments, and assessments in this course. Faculty expect you to submit work that represents your own efforts. This includes the use of programs that will suggest alternative writing styles or sentence patterns, such as Grammarly, but does not include standard spell and grammar checkers.
January 2025