Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a type of online tool that can create new content, such as text, images, or music, based on the data it has been trained on. It works by learning patterns from large datasets and then using those patterns to generate new information.
Examples of tools include ChatGPT, which generates human-like text and DALL-E, which creates images based on text prompts.
Middlesex is committed to the ethical and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) including Generative AI. We believe that used responsibly and with integrity AI can be a powerful tool for change, helping to transform our learning, teaching, and assessment, develop students’ employability, revolutionise our research, and enhance our systems and processes. We recognise the role AI will play in our professional and personal lives and we are committed to enabling our staff and students to gaIn the necessary skills to succeed in a future where AI is pervasive.
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in your assessments as specified by the module leader.
Where the use of Generative AI is allowed you must provide, as a minimum:
How and when to incorporate AI will be at the discretion of the programme team and will be led by the nature of the discipline and the programme and module learning outcomes. It will be informed by the principles above and subject to a rigorous internal and external quality assurance process.
It may be that some assessments explicitly ask students to work with Generative AI while others specify that AI should not be used, or used in specific ways. It must be made clear to students within the assessment criteria when and how they can use AI for each assessment, and how to acknowledge appropriately when they do so.