Students will see a statement about the use of AI in their syllabus.  Faculty may choose to modify the statement to ensure guidance aligns with the course learning objective.  The standard statement is as follows:

All student work must be original and reflect individual effort and understanding. When using AI tools, students must adhere to the following guidelines:

1. Instructor Approval: Before using AI tools for assignments or research, students must seek and obtain approval from the course instructor. This ensures that the use of AI aligns with the course's learning objectives.
2. Disclosure: Students must disclose any use of AI tools in their coursework or research. This includes identifying specific AI platforms used and explaining how they were utilized.
3. Citation: Any content generated by AI tools included in student work must be cited appropriately according to the course's citation guidelines.

Utilizing AI tools and programs to complete coursework without instructor approval, proper disclosure, and citation (if applicable) is a violation of academic integrity. Violation of this policy or misuse of artificial intelligence by students may result in disciplinary action.

Any assignments that allow the use of AI tools should include an acknowledgment of your AI use. A statement of disclosure should explain which AI system(s) you used and for what purpose. The requirements for a disclosure statement may be dictated by your faculty.  

This guide includes several practical examples for writing and placing disclosure statements:

• Cummings Graduate Institute, "Disclosure and Attribution of AI and Writing Tools" at https://azhin.org/cummings/disclosure-attribution-ai

While all use of AI must be appropriately disclosed, it's less common that content from AI is cited. For the most part, AI should be used as a supportive tool and not a source.  That said, if you do use an AI tool to generate content which you quote, refer to, or paraphrase in your work, it's best to include the citation.   

Here are some basic guidelines:

APA Style:

• Read a full description of how and when to cite AI on this page: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt
• Citation guidelines:
  • Format: Author. (Date). Name of tool (Version of tool) [Large language model]. URL
  • Example: OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
  • In-Text Citation Example: (OpenAI, 2023)

AMA Style:

AMA does not recommend using generative AI, like ChatGPT, as the creator or author of any material as it cannot be recreated and it's not a person. There is no formally accepted way to cite AI-generated content.  If you are writing a paper for publication, first make sure the publication accepts AI-generated content and indicate your use of generative AI in the acknowledgments or methods section.  If you are an instructor and allow AI use, one informal way to cite AI using AMA is by citing the software.  

Software Name. Version no. Publisher; Year. Accessed Date. URL

1. ChatGPT. Version Mar 14. OpenAI; 2023. Accessed July 20, 2024 https://openai.com/