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Individual instructors at Penn determine their own policies related to acceptable student use of generative AI in coursework.
CETLI states that Penn does not have a standardized policy on student AI use: each instructor is responsible for setting guidelines, and departments or programs may offer recommendations. Instructors determine acceptable AI use in coursework and may set assignment-specific policies.
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Wharton Academy permits students to use generative AI for brainstorming, learning efficiency, getting prompts, exploring different perspectives, asking for templates, getting preliminary feedback on written work, and language translation, at the discretion of faculty and instructional teams.
Wharton Academy permits students to use generative AI for brainstorming, learning efficiency, getting prompts, exploring different perspectives, asking for templates, getting preliminary feedback on written work, and language translation, at the discretion of faculty and instructional teams.
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In the absence of other guidance, Penn students should treat the use of AI as they would treat assistance from another person — if it is unacceptable to have another person substantially complete a task like writing an essay, it is also unacceptable to have AI complete the task.
In the absence of other guidance, Penn students should treat the use of AI as they would treat assistance from another person — if it is unacceptable to have another person substantially complete a task like writing an essay, it is also unacceptable to have AI complete the task.
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Wharton Academy prohibits students from using AI to complete personal reflection or opinion-based tasks, from using AI to complete group assignments instead of collaborating with peers, and from using AI to cheat on exams or tests.
Wharton Academy prohibits students from using AI to complete personal reflection or opinion-based tasks, from using AI to complete group assignments instead of collaborating with peers, and from using AI to cheat on exams or tests.
Penn requires all community members (educators, staff, researchers, and students) to be transparent about the use of AI and to disclose when a work product was created wholly or partially using an AI tool.
Penn's university-community generative AI guidance directs members to be transparent about AI use and disclose when a work product was created wholly or partially using AI, including how it was used when appropriate. The statement is guidance, not a final policy; instructors may set course-specific disclosure and citation requirements.
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At Wharton Academy, AI-generated work should be cited like any other reference material, including how and where students used AI-generated information; using AI-generated work without crediting the source is considered plagiarism.
At Wharton Academy, AI-generated work should be cited like any other reference material, including how and where students used AI-generated information; using AI-generated work without crediting the source is considered plagiarism.
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Penn educators should provide students with clear guidelines on the use of AI within coursework and should disclose to students when course materials have been created with AI or when AI detection software will be used.
Penn educators should provide students with clear guidelines on the use of AI within coursework and should disclose to students when course materials have been created with AI or when AI detection software will be used.
Penn's Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy mandates that users of publicly available (unlicensed) AI tools must not enter any information that could identify a student, including names, ID numbers, email addresses, or detailed descriptions of student work or engagement that could be identifiable to others.
CETLI reports that Penn's Office of Audit, Compliance & Privacy mandates that unlicensed AI tools must not receive information that could identify a student, including names, ID numbers, email addresses or identifiable descriptions of class work or engagement.
Penn mandates that student work (papers, projects) must not be entered into unlicensed AI tools without the student's permission, even if anonymized, because this work is part of the student's confidential academic record.
Penn's restrictions on unlicensed AI tools prohibit entering student work without the student's permission, even if anonymized, because it is part of the student's confidential academic record.
Instructors must not require students to enter their own work into unlicensed AI tools or use such tools in assignments; unlicensed tools may be used optionally by students at the instructor's discretion, but Penn-licensed tools should be used for mandatory coursework components.
Instructors must not require students to enter personal information or intellectual property into an unlicensed AI tool. Students may use unlicensed tools optionally at the instructor's discretion; CETLI says to consider a Penn-licensed tool for mandatory coursework components to protect student data.
Penn users should not input moderate or high-risk Penn data (per the Penn Data Risk Classification) or intellectual property into AI tools without careful consideration of data use policies, a protective contract, and review by Penn's Privacy Office and Office of Information Security.
Penn's guidance says users should avoid sharing personal or sensitive data and should not input moderate/high-risk Penn data or intellectual property without considering the provider's data rights and a protective contract. Moderate/high-risk data involves Privacy Office review and Information Security consultation coordinated by Procurement; intellectual property involves consultation with the Penn Center for Innovation.
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It is not permissible under HIPAA or Penn Medicine policy to share patient or research participant information with open or public AI tools and services such as ChatGPT; individual patient data and data sets (even if deidentified) may not be exposed to such tools absent institutional approval.
It is not permissible under HIPAA or Penn Medicine policy to share patient or research participant information with open or public AI tools and services such as ChatGPT; individual patient data and data sets (even if deidentified) may not be exposed to such tools absent institutional approval.
Grammarly for Education is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Grammarly Pro is listed by CETLI with stated access and data conditions. Its availability is not coursework or examination permission.
PennChat (Pilot) is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
PennChat is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Penn provides several licensed AI tools to its community, including Copilot Chat (Basic, free), Adobe Express (free), ChatGPT-EDU (purchase required), M365 Copilot Premium (purchase required), Gemini for Google Workspace (purchase required), Google NotebookLM (purchase required), Grammarly Pro (purchase required), Snowflake Data Analytics (purchase required), and Zoom AI Companion (free).
Penn offers institutionally licensed AI tools with different eligibility, costs, account requirements and permitted data categories. CETLI directs users to the current ISC directory for access and costs; a listing does not establish coursework or examination permission.
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Penn researchers should obtain IRB approvals prior to exposing research participant data to AI tools and should exercise caution when research involves high-risk data including PII and health information.
Penn researchers should obtain IRB approvals prior to exposing research participant data to AI tools and should exercise caution when research involves high-risk data including PII and health information.
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Penn community members should avoid uploading confidential or proprietary information to AI platforms prior to seeking patent or copyright protection, as doing so could jeopardize intellectual property rights.
Penn community members should avoid uploading confidential or proprietary information to AI platforms prior to seeking patent or copyright protection, as doing so could jeopardize intellectual property rights.
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Penn researchers should consult with department leadership and their discipline's publishing standards to determine how AI use should be accounted for with regard to authorship in publications.
Penn researchers should consult with department leadership and their discipline's publishing standards to determine how AI use should be accounted for with regard to authorship in publications.
Penn's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CETLI) instructs faculty that in all cases they should not upload student work into AI detectors, stating that uploading student work without consent violates FERPA and Penn privacy policies, and noting that AI detectors are not accurate enough to serve as evidence of misconduct due to frequent bias.
CETLI tells instructors not to upload student work into an AI detector in all cases. It states that uploading without consent violates FERPA and Penn privacy policies, and that detectors are not accurate enough to be treated as evidence of misconduct because of frequent bias.
If instructors suspect AI use that violates their course policy, CETLI advises discussing the student's drafting and reasoning process. Instructors may consult the Center for Community Standards & Accountability, which handles academic integrity violations, whether or not they intend to refer the student for further investigation.
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Wharton Academy prohibits students from directly copying answers from generative AI tools and submitting them as their own, from using AI to paraphrase or rewrite plagiarized content, and from posting AI-generated discussion posts within course community forums.
Wharton Academy prohibits students from directly copying answers from generative AI tools and submitting them as their own, from using AI to paraphrase or rewrite plagiarized content, and from posting AI-generated discussion posts within course community forums.
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University business processes using AI should have oversight, review, and verification of AI outputs in place to ensure reliability, consistency, and accuracy.
University business processes using AI should have oversight, review, and verification of AI outputs in place to ensure reliability, consistency, and accuracy.
Penn’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CETLI) maintains updated institutional guidance on Penn-licensed AI tools, providing community access to PennChat (with free daily token allotments for FERPA-protected educational records and HIPAA-protected health information via PennKey while on campus or VPN), alongside Anthropic Enterprise (Claude), Articulate AI Assistant, Adobe Express, and Copilot Chat, while mandating that instructors must not require students to enter personal information or intellectual property into unlicensed tools.
CETLI lists PennChat as free for the Penn community, with FERPA-protected educational records and HIPAA-protected health information listed as acceptable data uses, accessed with PennKey on campus or VPN. Other licensed tools have their own data and access conditions; instructors must not require personal information or intellectual property in unlicensed tools.
Adobe Firefly is listed by CETLI with stated access and data conditions. Its availability is not coursework or examination permission.
ChatGPT Edu is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
ChatGPT Edu is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Claude Anthropic is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Claude Anthropic is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Gemini for Google Workspace is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Gemini for Google Workspace is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Snowflake Data Analytics Platform & Consulting is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Snowflake Data Analytics Platform & Consulting is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Microsoft Copilot Chat (Basic) is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Microsoft Copilot Chat (Basic) is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Microsoft M365 Copilot (Premium) is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Microsoft M365 Copilot (Premium) is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
Google NotebookLM is listed for University of Pennsylvania in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: conditionally allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
Google Gemini Notebook is institutionally available under its stated account, audience, cost and data conditions. This does not establish permission to use it in coursework or examinations.
OpenEvidence is listed by CETLI with stated access and data conditions. Its availability is not coursework or examination permission.
Zoom AI Companion is listed by CETLI with stated access and data conditions. Its availability is not coursework or examination permission.
Penn's CETLI generative AI guidance page was updated from referring to 'Penn AI Guidance and Policies' to 'Penn AI Tools and Policies', adding that Penn offers access to AI tools and provides policies to help instructors and staff determine which tools are acceptable for different types of student data.
CETLI's Generative AI & Your Teaching overview links to Penn AI Tools & Policies for the changing institutional tool list and access instructions. Tool access is separate from instructors' course policies.
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Users of AI at Penn are accountable for AI-generated content and should validate its accuracy with trusted first-party sources, being wary of misinformation or hallucinations.
Users of AI at Penn are accountable for AI-generated content and should validate its accuracy with trusted first-party sources, being wary of misinformation or hallucinations.
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