11 # Worcester Polytechnic Institute AI policy record
2+academic_integrity: WPI's academic-integrity page defines cheating to include using unauthorized study aids, materials, information, or assistance in academic activity or assessment, and defines plagiarism to include using another's words, ideas, assertions, data, creative works, or graphics without proper attribution.
3+Evidence (en, 0e7022025c47): Cheating: Attempting to use or intentionally using unauthorized study aids, materials, information, or assistance in any academic activity or assessment. ... Plagiarism: Using words, ideas, assertions, data, creative works, or graphics of another without proper attribution in any academic activity.
4+teaching: WPI Library guidance says users should be transparent about AI-tool use and cite AI tools when they use them to gather information, write or edit text, generate media, synthesize ideas, or clean or manipulate data.
5+Evidence (en, d29c2b88b0a3): In general, you should always be transparent about your use of AI tools. Since AI tools cannot be considered an author ... they are generally considered a collaborator. Cite AI tools when they are used to: Gather information; Write text or generate media; Edit text; Synthesize ideas or find connections; "Clean" or manipulate data.
6+ai_tool_treatment: WPI Library guidance states that WPI professors have broad discretion over whether, how, and when students may use ChatGPT or other generative-AI content in assignments and projects, and students should check with their professor for expectations.
7+Evidence (en, 2dd8b2505b64): At WPI professors have broad discretion and many valid perspectives on whether, how, and when students can use ChatGPT or other content produced by generative artificial intelligence in assignments and projects.