Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This post is a discussion from the authors of a new resource posted on EDUCAUSE of a framework for transparent generative AI use in higher education. You can check it out for yourself; I personally found the four-level structure too limiting. The overall concern, says Carol Damm, is that AI has caused "an inherent lack of trust of anything that we see and read," and "transparency in how an author uses AI is a powerful mechanism for rebuilding that trust." That may be optimistic, but it's still useful to encourage "the possibility of interoperability and record-keeping among AI tools," if only because provenance in everything is what's going to matter a lot more in the future. But we really need to describe AI use more proecisely that what is depicted here.

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