Stephen Downes

By 'responsible' the report (64 page PDF) means "AI use that is ethical, valid, reproducible, and transparent." The phrase is widely defined in principle, but "still lacks an operational definition". That is what this report is intended to address. It offers a "five-dimension competency framework" where each dimension is a precondition for the next. For example, "An institution that has not made the human-in-the-loop call (Dimension 1) cannot define responsible use in practice (Dimension 2)." The dimensions are scored from absent through nascent and established to leading. It's worth noting: "Responsible AI use is a research-integrity question, not an academic-integrity question." Also, "AI literacy at the PhD level is not a tooling-skills problem; it is a judgment problem."