Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a powerful—but potentially dangerous—tool to support a wide range of research and teaching activities. Yet, AI struggles to match the level of intellectual integrity and scholarly rigor required for academic work.
I offer a few tools, guidelines, examples, and policy documents I think might help others advance their own use of mainstream AI tools in their roles as educators and researchers.
Note: these are living documents that are imperfect and regularly updated for my own use. Please feel free to use them and adapt them is appropriate for your work. If you do, please be sure to share them in the same way. They are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
AI Tool Rulebook
Make ChatGPT Behave
AI Tools are the ultimate “black boxes” where most of their actions occur behind the scenes based on rules, drawing from content, and enforcing policies end users aren’t allowed to see.
AI Class Use Policy
Here’s the official policy I use in my classes to let students know exactly what AI-use I’m OK with.
Rulebook Files
The rulebooks here are intended to be tool agnostic (e.g., ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and should be useful regardless of platform (locally hosted or online, pro or personal plans). Files are shared here as .txt for easy compatibility; they are written in markdown format and may be easier to read if saved/opened as .md files. They are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Full AI Rulebook
This is the full rulebook as a single file, including all parts and startup template for parameter customization.
Short AI Rulebook
This is an abbreviated version of the rulebook. Fewer details, less explicit, same gist.