- Build your human capabilities. Critical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, ethical judgement, strategic thinking, leadership and collaboration are skills you need that AI can’t replicate. Practice these skills at every opportunity you receive through your course work and assignments.
- Become GAI literate. Technical skills, engaging with AI, professional applications, and knowledge about when it is and isn’t appropriate to use AI are key to ethical approaches. We have to know what GAI is good at (and where it struggles to be proficient) to make good choices about when and when not to use it.
- Weigh the costs. Consider whether AI actually adds value to the task you are performing in a way that justifies the environmental, resource, human labor, and cognitive costs that come with it. Prioritize learning about these costs so that you have some idea about what goes into your use of the tool.
- Do the work. If you are simply using AI to skip the challenges of an academic or professional opportunity or task, there is a good chance that is misuse. If you do use it, be sure it is as an augment to your own work, not a replacement.
- Acknowledge and attribute. Cite and acknowledge, in detail, your use of AI in a manner fitting of your field.