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HS CIC: AI Guide

AI @ AISC

An update to the Student Handbook, on pages 91 and 92, the following was included:

A Note on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The emergence of AI presents challenges for all of us around academic integrity. Key questions to consider and ask as we learn and produce scholarship are:

  • When does the use of AI interfere with learning and scholarship?
  • How much AI assistance is considered too much?

Approaches to using AI that support academic integrity

  • To support learning, use AI as you would any other source - search using it, find information using it, evaluate the information and sources AI produces, decide what you will use, and analyze and synthesize information using the information you deem trustworthy. 
  • Appropriately cite AI as a source of information.
  • To support your scholarship, use AI to offer exemplars, critical feedback and possible means to improve.
  • In all that you do with AI, acknowledge, using the MLA and APA guidelines, how you used AI in your learning and scholarship.
  • Appropriately using AI can and should improve both your learning and scholarship, and support our fundamental values.
  • Inappropriately using AI in a way that undermines Academic Integrity will be subject to consequences detailed below.

AI Research Tools

Elicit uses machine learning to help with research: 

  • Brainstorm ideas and generate topics
  • Refine and focus a research question
  • Suggest search terms
  • Conduct a literature review
  • Evaluate an article
  • Reason from one claim to the next
  • Brainstorm possible counter-arguments

To access Elicit, you will need to create a free account. A more detailed guide to Elicit can be found here.

Perplexity.ai is an AI-based search engine with a chatbot-like interface. Perplexity AI features:

  • Answers that are supported by sources and citations
  • Links to relevant topics and questions
  • Focused searches from specific source types
  • Threads to organize searches and collaborate with other users
  • Co-Pilot: an interactive program that helps to guide your search by asking clarifying questions
  • Chrome extension

Perplexity AI does not require an account to use. However, with a free account, users can save and share results. More on perplexity can be found here.

JSTOR Text Analyzer 

How it works

  1. Upload a document with text in it. This can be anything: a paper you're writing, an outline of a work in progress, an article you just downloaded, even a picture of a page of your textbook.
  2. The tool analyzes the text within the document to find key topics and terms used, and then uses the ones it deems most important--the "prioritized terms"--to find similar content in JSTOR.
  3. Review the results and download any articles you're interested in.
  4. Adjust the results you're seeing by adding, removing, or adjusting the importance of the prioritized terms.

Access to JSTOR is provided through the AISC Libraries.

USEME AI

U S E M E A I by Stephen Taylor