Seoul National University

SNU AI Guidelines Chapter 2 §1 sets general ethical principles: members should share and acknowledge AI use to the extent possible (§1(1)), should verify facts and sources (§1(2)), must comply with copyright, privacy, and information security laws and University rules and ensure inputs do not include personal or rights-infringing content (§1(3)), should make diligent efforts to mitigate bias (§1(4)), and must recognize full personal responsibility for submitted AI-assisted outputs (§1(6)).

SNU's AI Guidelines (Chapter 2) set forth core ethical standards—transparency, fact and source verification, copyright/privacy/information security compliance, bias mitigation, and personal accountability—along with domain-specific ethical guidelines for teaching and learning, research and development, and administration.

SNU Central Library provides an advisory AI research ethics self-checklist asking researchers whether they clearly cited generative AI outputs, avoided using text/audio/images that infringe others' rights, refrained from entering sensitive or personal information, cross-checked AI outputs for errors or bias, and used AI as a supplementary research tool.

SNU Central Library guidance warns that failing to cite generative AI use when writing papers risks being regarded as plagiarism, and advises researchers to cite generative AI appropriately according to each target journal's citation style (introducing MLA, APA, and Chicago examples).

Under SNU AI Guidelines Chapter 2 §2(1)–(2) and §2(5), instructors should determine the scope of permitted and prohibited AI use and reporting requirements according to course nature and should clearly state and communicate their policies in course syllabi, whereas students must review and comply with the instructor's syllabus policies and must report their AI use in the prescribed manner when required.

SNU Central Library states that most electronic resource subscription agreements permit only viewing, downloading, and printing, while input for AI training/analysis or uploading to third-party services is not permitted without separate authorization, and notes that publisher license restrictions may separately prohibit such use even where copyright fair use might otherwise be recognized.

Under SNU AI Guidelines Chapter 2 §3(2), §3(4), and §3(5), researchers must review AI outputs and cross-validate them against literature, experiments, and expert judgment; must take care to prevent leakage of sensitive research information, should not unnecessarily enter or share research data or confidential information with AI tools, and must strictly observe research security laws; and should record and preserve the AI usage process (prompts, versions, model names, scope) to the extent possible for reproducibility.

SNU Central Library AI Literacy guidance states that AI can reduce working time and improve research productivity from topic discovery to editing and summarization, while advising researchers to uphold research ethics and responsible AI use.

SNU Central Library guidance on AI and research/publishing ethics cites COPE's position that AI tools cannot meet authorship requirements because they cannot take responsibility for submitted research results and lack legal personality to manage conflicts of interest, copyright, or license agreements.

SNU Central Library guidance cites COPE's position that authors who use AI tools in manuscript writing, image or graphic production, or data collection and analysis must clearly disclose in the materials and methods (or equivalent) section which AI tool was used and how.

SNU Central Library guidance (and AI Guidelines Chapter 2 §3(7)) states that researchers must check the editorial policies of target journals and publishers from the research planning stage, as publishers vary on disallowing LLM authorship, restricting AI-generated text, or permitting AI only as a supplementary tool.

Seoul National University provides ChatGPT Edu (including Codex software development support) for a 15-month operational period (June 2026 – August 2027) to currently enrolled students and employed faculty and researchers via administrator batch registration (administrative staff apply individually; affiliated school teachers receive ChatGPT Plus by application; members on academic or employment leave (휴학·휴직) are excluded). The SNU press release states the service is provided free of charge to students and excludes user input/output data from model training; accounts inactive for 3 or more months are subject to ID recall.

SNU's AI Guidelines present voluntary principles rather than uniform prohibitions or restrictions on AI use, supporting context-specific judgment, creative approaches, and clear communication grounded in academic autonomy, trust, and social responsibility.

SNU's AI Guidelines (Chapter 1) establish usage principles encouraging members to clarify their purposes before using AI, understand each AI technology's performance and limitations, maintain critical thinking without overreliance, and harmonize creative scholarly activity with social responsibility.

SNU Central Library warns that uploading subscribed electronic resources to generative AI services (such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini), or performing bulk downloads, calls, or full-text inputs, may exceed publisher license terms and could result in access suspension or subscription fee increases for the entire university.

SNU lists Korean and English PDF editions of the enacted SNU AI Guidelines (enacted Jan. 1, 2026) on its central downloads page (published March 18, 2026, where direct attachment links currently return HTTP 404) and serves the working official Korean and English PDF binaries through the Office of Research Affairs notice board (snurnd.snu.ac.kr, published Feb. 19, 2026).