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No.02 / 52 · 52 所大学 AI 使用政策比较研究No.02 of 52 · AI Use Policies at 52 Universities

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology麻省理工学院

来源层级 · 混合来源Source level · Mixed 11 / 12 项有明文规定11 of 12 provisions addressed 采集于 2026-08-21Accessed 2026-08-21 申请环节 · 仅本人写作/真实性要求Admissions · Authenticity requirement only

原文摘录Excerpt

选取标准:对高中读者最具引用价值的一句原文。Selected as the sentence most quotable for a high-school reader.

Self-evidently, it is much more difficult for students to explain their problem-solving process when they didn’t actually solve the problem!

↓ 在原文中的位置↓ Where it appears in the source

十二项条款The twelve provisions

11 / 12

每项附该校原文中的依据语句,以及图谱 52 校中持同一立场的校数。颜色越深,规定越明确、越具约束力(不代表优劣);斜纹表示该来源未作表述。Each provision gives the supporting sentence and how many of the 52 universities in the atlas take the same position. Darker means more explicit and binding (not better); hatching means the source does not address it.

许可Permission使用许可由谁决定who decides whether AI may be used

默认规则Default rule

Default rule默认规则

作业未说明可否使用 AI 时,适用何种规则?When an assignment says nothing about AI, what applies?

交由教师决定Instructor decides, no default
Regardless of your thoughts on using GenAI in your subject, convey those thoughts, the resultant subject policies, and the consequences of their violation with your students at the beginning of the semester.

编码说明CODING NOTENo institute-wide fallback for coursework; each instructor is told to state subject AI policies and the consequences of violating them at semester start.

52 校中 14 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:默认禁止(19/45)14 of 52 take this position · most common: Prohibited by default (19/45)

课程规则优先Instructor override

Instructor override课程规则优先

任课教师的规定是否优先于校级规定?Does an instructor's rule take precedence over the institution's?

教师可定但有底线Instructor rules within limits主流口径MOST COMMON
complies with any additional policies established by your department, lab, center, or institute (DLCI)

编码说明CODING NOTEInstructors set subject AI policy, but Institute policies, laws and DLCI policies bind any AI use as additional layers; precedence is never stated outright.

52 校中 33 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:教师可定但有底线(33/45)33 of 52 take this position · most common: Instructor rules within limits (33/45)

分级许可Tiered scale

Tiered scale分级许可

是否设有分级的使用许可框架?Is there a graduated permission framework?

非正式分类Informal categories主流口径MOST COMMON
includes three examples of AI Acceptable-use Syllabus Statements: A statement that prohibits its use; A statement that permits use with proper citation; and A statement that allows use on a case-by-case basis.

编码说明CODING NOTEThree example syllabus-statement types are named (prohibit / permit with citation / case-by-case); no formal ladder of AI use levels.

52 校中 15 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:非正式分类(15/20)15 of 52 take this position · most common: Informal categories (15/20)

透明Transparency使用后须说明的内容what must be declared after use

披露要求Disclosure

Disclosure披露要求

使用 AI 是否须予披露?为强制还是建议?Must AI use be disclosed, and is that required or recommended?

依课程而定Course dependent
If you choose to permit using GenAI for assignments, clearly specify how you expect students to cite and document its use.

编码说明CODING NOTECitation and documentation apply only where an instructor permits AI and specifies them; no institute-wide student disclosure duty is stated.

52 校中 14 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:强制披露(20/46)14 of 52 take this position · most common: Required (20/46)

过程留证Process evidence

Process evidence过程留证

是否须保留草稿、提示词或编辑历史?Must drafts, prompts or edit history be kept?

建议留证Recommended主流口径MOST COMMON
If a student uses generative AI in some aspect of the solution, the requirement that they document their thought processes will force them to engage a bit deeper with certain aspects of the problem and the learning process overall.

编码说明CODING NOTETLL suggests instructors require students to document their problem-solving process; a faculty recommendation, not an institute requirement on students.

52 校中 18 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:建议留证(18/19)18 of 52 take this position · most common: Recommended (18/19)

责任Accountability错误与违规的责任归属responsibility for errors and violations

核实责任Verification duty

Verification duty核实责任

AI 输出有误或虚构引注时,由谁负责?Who is responsible when AI output is wrong or a citation is invented?

一般性提醒General caution
make sure to stress that it doesn’t always produce correct answers and provide examples. Underscore that genAI output requires reflection and input from humans.

编码说明CODING NOTEInstructors are told to stress that genAI is often wrong and that output needs human reflection; no stated checking duty binding students.

52 校中 11 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:须自行核实(17/38)11 of 52 take this position · most common: Verification required (17/38)

违规定性Integrity framing

Integrity framing违规定性

违规使用在纪律体系中如何定性?How is a violation classified in the disciplinary system?

学术不端Academic integrity violation主流口径MOST COMMON
Institute policies (including 10.1 Academic and Research Misconduct , 11.0 Privacy and Disclosure of Personal Information , and 13.0 Information Policies )

编码说明CODING NOTEAI use must comply with Institute policies including Academic and Research Misconduct; TLL prose calls genAI reliance chatbot plagiarism but states no rule.

52 校中 28 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:学术不端(28/44)28 of 52 take this position · most common: Academic integrity violation (28/44)

检测器证据Detector evidence

Detector evidence检测器证据

AI 检测工具的结果能否作为证据?Can AI-detection results be used as evidence?

未作表述Not addressed

本项目采集的官方来源未就此条款作出表述;这不代表该校没有相关规定。The official source collected here does not address this provision; this does not mean the university has no rule on it.

52 校中 38 所同样未作表述38 of 52 are likewise silent

边界Boundaries数据、版权与工具的限制limits on data, copyright and tools

数据与隐私Data & privacy

Data & privacy数据与隐私

哪些内容不得输入 AI 工具?What must not be entered into an AI tool?

禁止上传受限数据Restricted data prohibited主流口径MOST COMMON
Generative AI tools licensed by MIT are acceptable for use with Institute low- and medium-risk data. High-risk data should never be used with generative AI tools.

编码说明CODING NOTEHigh-risk data is barred from all AI tools; medium-risk data is barred from public tools; MIT-licensed tools are urged whenever Institute data is involved.

52 校中 20 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:禁止上传受限数据(20/31)20 of 52 take this position · most common: Restricted data prohibited (20/31)

机构工具Institutional tools

Institutional tools机构工具

学校是否指定或提供 AI 工具?Does the institution designate or provide AI tools?

提供机构版工具Institution-provided tool主流口径MOST COMMON
If you are unsure of which tool to start with, use MIT’s Parley platform , which allows users to select from a variety of LLMs. All the models in Parley are protected by MIT data privacy agreements

编码说明CODING NOTEMIT licenses GenAI tools and points users to its Parley platform, covered by MIT agreements barring training on or sharing of MIT data.

52 校中 19 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:提供机构版工具(19/24)19 of 52 take this position · most common: Institution-provided tool (19/24)

理由Rationale规则的依据the stated basis for the rules

学习理由Learning rationale

Learning rationale学习理由

规则是否以“不得绕过应习得的能力”为依据?Are the rules grounded in not bypassing the skills to be learned?

明确以学习目标为据Explicit learning-objective rationale主流口径MOST COMMON
For many instructors, thinking about the process of student learning and the assessment of that process is a useful way to (1) help students develop the habits of mind and skills essential to the discipline (or subject)

编码说明CODING NOTECourse redesign is justified by learning goals: assess process, build disciplinary habits of mind, and shift away from products that invite genAI reliance.

52 校中 22 所与此相同 · 该条主流口径:明确以学习目标为据(22/37)22 of 52 take this position · most common: Explicit learning-objective rationale (22/37)

补充信息Further detail

该校的分级框架Its permission levels

  1. High Risk Data
  2. Medium Risk Data
  3. Low Risk Data

要求披露的内容What must be disclosed

正式引注Formal citation使用范围与程度Extent of use

申请环节的 AI 政策AI in the application

admissions/02-MIT.md

该校招生办公室就申请人使用 AI 的公开表述,以本科新生申请为主。英文为逐字原文,中文为整理者的分析。证据状态描述找到了什么材料,不是宽严等级;未说明不代表允许。What this university's admissions office says about applicants using AI, chiefly for first-year undergraduate applications. English passages are verbatim; the Chinese is the collector's analysis. The evidence status describes what material was found, not how strict the rules are; silence does not mean permission.

证据状态Evidence status 本科本人写作/真实性要求(未证实细化 AI 边界)Own-work and authenticity requirements; no detailed AI boundaries verified

MIT 本科申请页强调诚实、开放、真实;旧招生官博客区分校对与代写,但未专门讨论 AI。招生博客转载的 AI 教学讨论不具政策效力;化学系研究生 AI 线索因无法取回正文未采用。

52 所大学对照 →All 52 compared →

来源信息Source information

  • 访问日期Accessed 2026-09-24 (Asia/Shanghai)
  • 格式说明Format note Short, verbatim English excerpts from live official webpages; whitespace and layout may be normalized. Chinese analysis is separate. Saved readable source bodies may retain some menus or comments; URL and retrieval metadata are in research/group1.json, not inserted into source text.
  • 适用范围Scope note Undergraduate application essays and short answers. Historical admissions-staff advice and non-policy faculty commentary are clearly labeled. An inaccessible Chemistry graduate FAQ is an unverified lead only.
  • 证据状态Evidence status authenticity-only — current undergraduate authenticity advice verified; no explicit undergraduate admissions AI-use rule verified in the searched public sources.
  • 校内 AI 政策原文Original campus-AI source file 02-MIT.md (separate scope; not an admissions rule).
  • 用途说明Use note 本文件供来源比较与核验,不构成学校新增规定;未说明不代表许可。

关键发现(中文)

  • 现行本科申请页要求诚实、开放、真实,覆盖多道短答和文书;本次没有在所核验页面找到申请者 AI 具体用途清单。[S1]
  • 2007 年招生人员 Ben Jones 的官方博客建议自己写文书,并区分亲友校对与将文章重写到不再属于本人。这是历史写作建议,不能自动换算成 AI 校对许可或新的 AI 禁令。[S2]
  • 2023 年招生博客由招生工作人员转贴写作教师的 AI 教学讨论;所引教师说明明确表示不具系内或全校官方效力。不能因它在招生网站上,就当作招生 AI 政策。[S3]
  • MIT 本科 FAQ 索引也纳入补查;化学系研究生 FAQ 是外部页面提供的线索,但全文连接失败,未据摘要宣称 MIT 允许 AI。[S4]

Official sources

1. [S1] Essays, activities & academics

[S1-Q1]

Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application consists of several short response questions and essays designed to help us get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be open, be authentic—this is your opportunity to connect with us.

中文说明:现行本科第一年申请页面,正文标注 2026–2027 申请季,未标明页面发布日期。申请季不是发布日期。真实性指导可直接采用;未出现的 AI 用途不能补写。

2. [S2] Advice On The Essay

  • 官方来源Official source https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/advice_on_the_essay/
  • 发布单位Issuing unit MIT Admissions; Ben Jones
  • 页面日期Page date 2007-09-25 (explicit page update/publication date)
  • 适用范围Scope undergraduate
  • 来源性质Authority kind official-advice (historical admissions staff blog)
  • 采集时间Retrieved 2026-09-24T23:06:34+08:00; full-text (ordinary public HTTP request)

[S2-Q1]

The rules are simple: write your own essays. That's the best advice anyone can give to you.

[S2-Q2]

To clarify, I'm not telling you to shut your parents or counselors out of the process entirely. It's always nice to have someone look over your writing and fix the things that spell-check doesn't catch, like when you spell "here" as "hear" or "their" as "there" or "they're."

[S2-Q3]

But there's a big difference between those little things and the act of someone else rewriting your essay for you to the point that it's no longer your work – or, even worse, your voice. So don't go there.

中文说明:作者 Ben Jones 为招生人员;这是官方招生网站上的历史工作人员建议,不是学生博客,也不是 AI 专门规定。保留校对可以接受与不可变成他人代写的相邻边界;页面下方读者留言未作证据。

3. [S3] MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  • 官方来源Official source https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-writing-faculty-comment-on-gpt-and-other-ai-assisted-writing/
  • 发布单位Issuing unit MIT Admissions; Chris Peterson SM ’13, reposting MIT writing faculty
  • 页面日期Page date 2023-01-24 (explicit page update/publication date)
  • 适用范围Scope coursework / writing pedagogy; not an applicant policy
  • 来源性质Authority kind faculty-commentary (explicitly non-policy)
  • 采集时间Retrieved 2026-09-24T23:06:34+08:00; full-text (ordinary public HTTP request)

[S3-Q1]

The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us: They have no official standing within even our department, and certainly not within the Institute. Nonetheless, we hope you find them useful.

中文说明:作者为招生工作人员 Chris Peterson,正文转载写作教师面向教学的讨论。引文中的 “two of us” 指被转载的教师 Nick Montfort 和 Ed Schiappa;这段免责限定不能扩展为 MIT 整体没有政策的证明。此来源仅用于排除误分类,不用于确立申请者许可。

4. [S4] FAQ

  • 官方来源Official source https://mitadmissions.org/help/faq/
  • 发布单位Issuing unit MIT Admissions
  • 页面日期Page date not stated
  • 适用范围Scope undergraduate
  • 来源性质Authority kind official-faq-index
  • 采集时间Retrieved 2026-09-24T23:06:34+08:00; full-text (ordinary public HTTP request)

[S4-Q1]

At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application process and want you to be able to express yourself authentically.

中文说明:本页是分页 FAQ 索引,不是独立 AI FAQ。引句来自 “Who will have access to my application information?” 的索引摘要;用于记录补查范围,不能代表查遍全部 FAQ 或所有申请认证。

Permitted / prohibited / not stated(按用途)

  • 明确允许的 AI 用途:在已核验的本科材料中未逐项说明。
  • 真实性要求 / 官方建议:现行页面强调诚实真实;历史招生人员建议允许亲友指出校对问题,但不要把文书重写到不再是本人的工作或声音。[S1][S2]
  • 未说明:AI 构思、提纲、起草、改写、语法/拼写检查、翻译、研究补充材料 AI 披露及 AI 专门制裁。未说明不构成许可。
  • 不能作为依据:面向教师的 AI 教学讨论不能给申请者授权;未取回的化学系研究生 FAQ 不能作为本文结论,更不能推广到本科。[S3]

Research limitations

  • 检索覆盖本科文书页、FAQ 索引、站点定向检索、招生官方博客;并未登录 MIT 申请门户取得全部提交认证,也未声称逐页遍历所有分页 FAQ。
  • 未验证的研究生线索:https://chemistry.mit.edu/academic-programs/graduate-programs/faqs/ 。web_fetch 超时,普通 requests 报 No route to host,HTTP 公开地址重试也超时;未采纳二手引语或据此标为 graduate-only-ai。
  • 2007 年建议距今较久;它只能证明已发表的历史招生建议,不能冒充现行 AI 专门政策。
  • 未使用 MIT 在校课程、校园 IT 指南或学生评论建立招生规则。未找到规则不等于没有规则或允许使用。
Search log
  • 检索日期Research date 2026-09-24, Asia/Shanghai. Search results were leads only; findings above are based on retrieved official body text.
  1. 检索Query site.mitadmissions.org application "AI" essays
    • 结果Result 定向检索本科申请与文书;核验现行页面 [S1]。
  2. 检索Query site.mitadmissions.org "AI" "application" "policy"
    • 结果Result 第二组政策关键词检索;未取得明确本科申请 AI 用途条款。
  3. 检索Query MIT admissions ChatGPT applicant essays FAQ certification
    • 结果Result 补查 FAQ、认证及化学系研究生线索;[S4] 可访问,研究生线索全文失败。
  4. 检索Query site.chemistry.mit.edu "AI tools" "statement"
    • 结果Result 找到二手页面指向化学系 FAQ;官网 HTTPS 普通访问失败,未当作政策证据。
  5. 检索Query site.mitadmissions.org/blogs "ChatGPT" "essays" "application"
    • 结果Result 核验历史招生人员建议 [S2] 与教师 AI 教学讨论 [S3],严格区分适用范围和效力。
  6. 检索Query site.mitadmissions.org/help "artificial intelligence"
    • 结果Result 补查帮助/FAQ 域;返回内容多为其他域或一般 AI 讨论,未获得本科 AI 专门条款。

官方原文The official text

univ/02-MIT.md

本项目采集的该校官方文本。图谱引用的语句已高亮,句末标签注明对应条款,点击可返回该条款。The official text collected for this university. Sentences the atlas cites are highlighted; the tag after each names the provision it supports and links back to it.灰色小字为其余原文(约 4,418 词),未被本项目引用,仅供参考。 Text in small grey type (about 4,418 words) is the rest of the collected text; it is not cited by this project and is shown for reference.

来源信息Source information

  • 访问日期Accessed 2026-08-21
  • 格式说明Format note Text extracted from the official university webpage; navigation and site chrome removed. Wording is retained; layout may differ from the webpage.
  • 适用范围Scope note Combines institute technology/data guidance with Teaching + Learning Lab course-design guidance; it does not establish one fixed AI permission rule for all MIT coursework.
  • 用途说明Use note This is source material for comparison, not a translation or the school’s final high-school policy.

Guidance for use of Generative AI tools


Using Generative AI at MIT

Generative AI tools can support many types of work at MIT. However, using these tools requires care — especially when working with Institute data. MIT work should be conducted using MIT-licensed AI tools whenever Institute data is involved.

Generative AI tools licensed by MIT are acceptable for use with Institute low- and medium-risk data. High-risk data should never be used with generative AI tools.数据与隐私Data & privacy

Determine the Risk Level of Your Data Before Using AI Tools

The Institute's data classification framework is found on the Infoprotect website. Use the self-assessment tool and see the risk level definitions with examples to determine the risk level of your data.

| Publicly Available GenAI Tool | | MIT-Licensed GenAI Tool | | Low Risk Data | | Not recommended* | | Allowed | | Medium Risk Data | | Not allowed | | Allowed | | High Risk Data | | Not allowed** | | Not allowed** | *For MIT-related work, low-risk information should be used only in MIT-licensed generative AI tools. Public generative AI tools may use submitted data for model training or external sharing and are not governed by MIT agreements. MIT provides licensed tools , such as Parley , that are designed to support Institute work while protecting MIT data.

**Do not use high-risk information with Generative AI tools, including MIT enterprise Generative AI tools. If you have used high-risk data in a Generative AI tool, contact security@mit.edu immediately.

If you are unsure if an AI tool is right for your data’s risk level, contact ai-guidance@mit.edu .

Generative AI Tools Licensed by MIT

MIT enterprise agreements govern the safety and security of data entered into MIT-approved tools. A list of Generative AI tools currently licensed by IS&T can be found on the IS&T website.

If you are unsure of which tool to start with, use MIT’s Parley platform , which allows users to select from a variety of LLMs. All the models in Parley are protected by MIT data privacy agreements机构工具Institutional tools, which prevent use of MIT data for model training and external sharing by the third-party platforms.

If you wish to purchase new Generative AI tools, you must go through the VPF procurement process to ensure the vendor agreement has the appropriate terms. IS&T works closely with the MIT IT Governance Committee , Information Technology Policy Committee , and the Office of General Counsel to determine appropriate terms for vendor agreements relating to generative AI.

Generative AI Tools for MIT Education and Research

MIT's Chair of the Faculty has recommended the use of these resources on generative AI and teaching provided by the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. This guidance does not address all issues for consideration when using generative AI tools as part of MIT research, nor does this guidance focus on when MIT researchers are creating generative AI tools or publicly releasing datasets/information that could become ingestible data for use by MIT researchers or third parties for training generative AI tools. Please contact mitogc@mit.edu for further guidance on research-related applications or development of AI tools.

Researchers should also refer to the COUCHES Guidance on AI in Research and the MIT Libraries Guidance on Citing AI-Generated Content .

Generative AI Tools with Patent and Invention-Related Data (TLO Guidance)

Additional restrictions apply to patent-related materials and invention disclosures.知识产权IP & copyright See the TLO Statement on Using Public Generative AI Tools in Patent‑Related Activities for complete information.

Compliance with Federal and State Laws and Orders

As with any use of information technology at MIT, ensure that your use of generative AI tools and services complies with all applicable federal and state laws and orders (including, without limitation, FERPA, HIPAA, Massachusetts Data Protection Standards , export control laws, and Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence ), Institute policies (including 10.1 Academic and Research Misconduct , 11.0 Privacy and Disclosure of Personal Information , and 13.0 Information Policies )违规定性Integrity framing, follows all guidelines outlined on Information Protection , the Institute's Written Information Security Program (WISP), and complies with any additional policies established by your department, lab, center, or institute (DLCI)课程规则优先Instructor override.

Resources

IS&T's list of generative AI tools available at MIT

Report of the Working Group on Artificial Intelligence in Administration and Operations

Related MIT Policies

  • 9.2 Personal Conduct and Responsibilities Towards Students and Employees
  • 10.0 Academic and Research Misconduct and Dishonesty
  • Academic Integrity at MIT
  • Policies Regarding Student Behavior
  • Responsible and Ethical Conduct at MIT

MIT’s Written Information Security Program

  • Information Protection at MIT

Intellectual Property

  • Patenting and Commercializing Your Invention

Patent Applications and Invention Disclosures

  • Technology Licensing Office Guidelines for Using Generative AI in Patent-Related Activities

Publishing

  • Scholarly Communications: Publishing and Research
  • Citing AI tools

Sponsored Research & Proprietary Information of Third Parties

  • Industry Sponsored Research Agreements

Page updated 6/23/2026

AI in Teaching & Learning / Generative AI & Your Course


Read, Refine, Define & Articulate

The sheer daily volume of new information and insights about Generative AI (genAI) makes it imperative for all of us to set aside regular periods of time to reflect 1 on this powerful tool. We hope you’ll take time to develop your own reflections as well as discuss with your colleagues and students the successes and challenges you encounter, as well as identify lessons learned, and brainstorm about potential modifications for future semesters.

To help MIT faculty & instructors navigate the sea of information on the use of genAI in higher education 2 , TLL has combined timely news, advice, and resources on genAI with best practices in teaching and learning. As you design and deliver your subjects in this rapidly changing world of genAI, we recommend that you engage with the following:

  • Refine your goals for learning
  • Be clear about your expectations and the acceptable use of GAI
  • Rethink your assignments & assessments
  • Consider alternate subject formats
  • Design for equity, accessibility, and student privacy

For a variety of AI-aware assessment makeovers see our AI-Aware Implementation: Examples page .

The corresponding tabs below are designed to guide you through your planning process and support your teaching throughout the semester.

In addition, you can download our Quickstart Guide to Thinking about AI in your Course to reference when considering how to use (or not use) genAI in your course.

Are you interested in leveraging the utility of generative AI to create more meaningful assignments and more authentic learning experiences? Would you like to talk with someone about your ideas and concerns about genAI? Contact us (TLL@mit.edu) to request a consultation.

Refine Your Goals

Define Acceptable Use

Revise Your Assignments & Assessments

Consider Course Format

Equity, Access, Privacy

How might generative AI prompt us to reconsider and refine goals for student learning?

Over the years, our ideas have changed regarding what students need to know how to do “from scratch” and what they can outsource to technology. For example, many courses permit (encourage) the use of software packages for mathematical operations and/or the analysis of scientific and engineering processes (e.g., Wolfram Alpha, Matlab, etc.) and the use of existing pieces of code (e.g., GitHub, etc.) in programming. And, of course – there is the calculator.

Before considering the affordances or annoyances of generative AI in your teaching context, it is important to critically examine your real goals for student learning . Are there levels of higher-order thinking – more complex, more authentic learning goals – that you’d like students to achieve? If so, you can begin to explore how generative AI tools help students achieve those goals.

In particular, you may wish to:

  • Engage with GenAI and examine how it handles your current assignment prompts and problems. Think back to your ideal goals for student learning and consider how you can modify your assignments to support your actual goals for student learning.
  • Consider how you might (re)design your assignments and/or course format to leverage generative AI and better support meaningful student learning.
  • Consider how GenAI can help you leverage the science of learning in your teaching. See TLL’s post, Applying the Science of Learning in your Teaching: Generative AI May Help .

Teaching + Learning Lab Staff are available to help you refine your goals. Contact us at tll@mit.edu.

AI Acceptable Use Statements

Regardless of your thoughts on using GenAI in your subject, convey those thoughts, the resultant subject policies, and the consequences of their violation with your students at the beginning of the semester.默认规则Default rule Including an AI Acceptable-use Statement in your syllabus and discussing your rationale for the policy on the first day of class can help regulate students’ use of GenAI and open the door for additional conversations about GenAI and learning in your subject as the semester progresses. If you choose to permit using GenAI for assignments, clearly specify how you expect students to cite and document its use.披露要求Disclosure

Note that OpenAI’s terms of use include the following among its restrictions: users may not “represent that output from the Services was human-generated when it is not.” For guidelines on properly attributing GenAI output, see: How to Cite ChatGPT .

Teaching + Learning Lab Staff are available to help you develop an AI Acceptable Use statement for your syllabus. Additional resources are provided below.

  • TLL’s February Post: Teaching & Learning with ChatGPT: Opportunity or Quagmire? Part III – Academic Integrity | Student Privacy | Equity & Accessibility includes three examples of AI Acceptable-use Syllabus Statements: A statement that prohibits its use; A statement that permits use with proper citation; and A statement that allows use on a case-by-case basis.分级许可Tiered scale
  • TLL’s Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program’s (KTCP’s) syllabus statement Derek Bruff’s Intentional Teaching newsletter Show Us Your Syllabus: Chatbot Edition has several examples of AI Acceptable-use Syllabus Statements from colleges and universities across the country.
  • Lance Eaton’s compilation of crowd-sourced policy statements Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools .
  • Torrey Trust’s articles in Faculty Focus Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1 Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 2
  • The Best AI Policies I’ve Seen So Far Daniel Stanford’s Substack
  • For additional information on creating a syllabus that acknowledges and incorporates policies regarding the use of generative AI, see the Syllabus Resources on the Sentient Syllabus Project’s website .

As you rethink your assignments and assessments in light of genAI, keep your revised goals for student learning in mind. Consider whether you are hoping to leverage genAI’s affordances or mitigate its use.

Writing in his blog, Agile Learning , Derek Bruff suggests that instructors ask themselves the following questions when considering an assignment revision:

  • Why does this assignment make sense for this course?
  • What are specific learning objectives for this assignment?
  • How might students use AI tools while working on this assignment?
  • How might AI undercut the goals of this assignment? How could you mitigate this?
  • How might AI enhance the assignment? Where would students need help figuring that out?
  • Focus on the process. How could you make the assignment more meaningful for students or support them more in the work?

Mitigating the Use of GenAI

For many instructors, thinking about the process of student learning and the assessment of that process is a useful way to (1) help students develop the habits of mind and skills essential to the discipline (or subject)学习理由Learning rationale and (2) shift the focus of student learning assessment away from end products that may lend themselves to genAI reliance and plagiarism.

Helping students to engage with the learning process may be particularly relevant here at MIT, where developing students as agile critical thinkers and problem solvers are primary and essential goals of an MIT education and cornerstones of the campus ethos. Experts in a field are fluent in the problem-solving process. They are comfortable “playing” with multiple solution paths and ideas – i.e., hitting dead ends – and learning from these mistakes to eventually formulate solutions. Many novices (our students included) believe if they don’t see the solution right away, that they will fail. Learning how to solve problems involves learning from failed solution attempts and accepting that initial “failure” is almost always part of developing a successful solution. Here, a focus on the process , in addition to the product, can help students achieve our goals for them as MIT graduates and minimize chatbot plagiarism. (For more on expert v. novice learners , see the Resources section below.)

Higher education author and consultant John Warner recently commented: “ One of the hallmarks of growing sophistication as a writer is seeing the idea you thought you were expressing change in front of your eyes as you are writing. This is high-level critical thinking. This kind of emergent rethinking is an experience that every college-level writer should be familiar with. ” (Warner, 2022).

And, as Nancy Gleason, director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning at NYU Abu Dhabi, wrote in The Times Higher Ed , “[…the assessment of only] a completed product is no longer viable. Scaffolding [and assessing] the skills and competencies associated with writing, producing and creating is the way forward.” (Gleason, 2022).

Consider the usefully prescient comments of cognitive and learning scientist Michelene Chi in her 1994 paper on the impact of self-explanations during problem solving on the improvement of student science understanding: “ …especially for challenging science domains….students should learn to be able to talk science (to understand how the discourse of the field is organized, how viewpoints are presented, and what counts as arguments and support for these arguments), so that students can participate in scientific discussions, rather than just hear science. ” (Chi, 1994)”

In subjects that use problem sets , ask students to explain their thought processes as they solve (a subset of) the problems.

A few (of many possible) helpful prompts may include asking them to describe:

  • Why they chose a particular method;
  • Why they made certain assumptions and/or simplifications;
  • Where they ran into dead ends and how they found their way forward;
  • What broader takeaways did they learn from solving the problem?

As a follow-up to any type of assignment, you can ask them to reflect on and articulate:

  • Any issues they had in beginning the assignment;
  • What they found most interesting or surprising;
  • Their “aha moment”;
  • How the completion of the assignment added to their understanding of the topic, etc.

Developing students’ metacognitive skills by requiring them to self-regulate and self-explain their solution process may mitigate their use of AI-generated responses. Self-evidently, it is much more difficult for students to explain their problem-solving process when they didn’t actually solve the problem!摘录Excerpt If a student uses generative AI in some aspect of the solution, the requirement that they document their thought processes will force them to engage a bit deeper with certain aspects of the problem and the learning process overall.过程留证Process evidence

Frequent Low-stakes, In-class Quizzes

Regardless of your assignment types (psets, weekly papers, reading reflections, coding), consider adding weekly, low-stakes, in-class quizzes that ask them to solve a close variant of one or two of the pset questions from the week and/or a previous week; reflect on and/or summarize a discussion from a previous class.

Frequent, low-stakes quizzing allows students to practice retrieval – a key component of the learning process, and if the quizzes pull questions from previous weeks, it can further develop students’ ability to retrieve and apply recently learned concepts and skills. See TLL’s How to Teach pages for additional information on retrieval and spaced & interleaved practices.

If you use this strategy, you’ll want to:

  • Be explicit with students about what you are doing and why.
  • Include follow-up questions from the previous section of the course (above) in your pset – to encourage students to reflect on the problem-solving process.
  • During the first few weeks of the semester, model the type of reflective and engaged responses that you are looking for on the quizzes.
  • Reconsider how you allocate points for the various assignments in your subject. With the addition of weekly, in-class quizzes – you may want to decrease point value and/or the grading time required for other assignments.

Leveraging GenAI

As noted in the Refine Your Goals for Learning section, the affordances of GenAI may allow you to better support students’ development of higher-order, more complex skills like synthesis, analysis, and creation.

In their paper, Mollick and Mollick offer detailed descriptions of ways to leverage programs like ChatGPT in student assignments. They suggest that “ …AI can be used to overcome three barriers to learning in the classroom: improving transfer , breaking the illusion of explanatory depth , and training students to critically evaluate explanations .” (Mollick & Mollick, 2022).

In line with the Mollicks, Lucinda McKnight, senior lecturer in pedagogy and curriculum at Deakin University, offers several suggestions for incorporating genAI into student assignments to support deeper and more robust learning, including:

  • Use AI writers as researchers. They can research a topic exhaustively in seconds and compile text for review, along with (real & hallucinated) references for students to follow up. This material can then inform original and carefully referenced student writing.
  • Use AI writers to produce text on a given topic for critique. Design assessment tasks that involve this efficient use of AI writers, then [ask students to provide] critical annotation of the text that is produced.
  • Use different AI writers to produce different versions of text on the same topic to compare and evaluate.
  • Use and attribute AI writers for routine text, for example, blog content. Use discrimination to work out where and why AI text, human text, or hybrid text are appropriate and give accounts of this thinking.
  • Research and establish the specific affordances of AI-based content generators for your discipline. For example, how might it be useful to be able to produce text in multiple languages in seconds? Or create text optimized for search engines?
  • Explore different ways AI writers and their input can be acknowledged and attributed ethically and appropriately in your discipline. Model effective note-making and record-keeping. Use formative assessment that explicitly involves discussion of the role of AI in given tasks. Discuss how AI could lead to various forms of plagiarism and how to avoid this. (McKnight, 2022).

Whether or not you explicitly incorporate generative AI into all your assignments (or a subset of your assignments), make sure to stress that it doesn’t always produce correct answers and provide examples. Underscore that genAI output requires reflection and input from humans.核实责任Verification duty

Many of the resources included at the end of this section provide examples of redesigned assignments from a wide range of disciplines that leverage or mitigate the use of GAI.

Staff from the Teaching + Learning Lab are available to help you revise your assignments and assessments.

Resources

Updated April, 2025

Expert v. novice learners
  • Hardiman, P.T., Dufresne, R. & Mestre, J.P. (1989). The relation between problem categorization and problem solving among experts and novices . Memory & Cognition 17, 627–638. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF0319708 5
  • Larkin, J., McDermott, J., Simon, D.P., & Simon, H. (1980). Expert and Novice Performance in Solving Physics Problems. Science , 208(4450). pp. 1335-1342. DOI:10.1126/science.208.4450.1335
  • Polya, G., & Conway, J. H. (2014). How to solve it: A New aspect of mathematical method . Princeton University Press.
  • Wankat, P.C., and F.S. Oreovicz (2015). Problem solving & creativity in Teaching Engineering , Second Edition (pp. 93-115). Purdue University Press. (Open Access Edition)
Assignments

For information on developing psets that incorporate GenAI, see our post: Rethinking Your Problem Sets in the World of Generative AI

For additional ideas for rethinking assignments, see Appendices B-F of Cornell’s Committee Report: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Education and Pedagogy

  • Appendix BAppendix B Courses that develop writing as a skill
  • Appendix CAppendix C Creative courses for music, literature, and art
  • Appendix DAppendix D Courses in social sciences
  • Appendix EAppendix E Mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering
  • Appendix FAppendix F Courses in programming

Course Format

If you are committed to limiting students’ use of genAI in your subject, you may want consider how a change in its format and/or structure of might impact students’ use of genAI. Take a fresh look at Blended Learning (BL). In BL, students generally view recordings of lectures and/or engage with pre-class readings to gain a basic understanding of relevant topics (this is the “information-delivery” component of the class). They then engage in active problem solving (information retrieval and application and knowledge creation) during class time. Depending on the subject (topic, level, etc.), you may be able to restrict students’ use of computers during class to ensure that they are engaging in traditional problem solving as they grapple with key problems from the week’s material. 1 Additionally, even if students are required to use particular software or applications – you can monitor their use during class time.

Teaching + Learning Lab staff are available to help you implement blended learning in your courses. Additional Resources are provided below.

  • Professors Wolfgang Ketterle and Lorna Gibson describe their uses of flipped classrooms (blended learning) to better support learning and engage students.
  • The Blended Learning section of the Report of the RIC16 Ad Hoc Committee: Leveraging Best Practices from Remote Teaching for On-Campus Education
  • Dealing with the Lack of Student Engagement in Lectures . Richard de Neufville, MIT Faculty Newsletter , January-April 2023, vol. XXXV no. 3
  • Blended Learning . Center for Teaching & Learning at Columbia
  • Freeman S, Haak D, Wenderoth MP. Increased course structure improves performance in introductory biology. CBE Life Sciences Education 2011 Summer;10(2):175-86. doi: 10.1187/cbe.10-08-0105. PMID: 21633066; PMCID: PMC3105924. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3105924/

1 If you use this approach – make sure that you can accommodate students who require the use of computers, and/or specific software, etc. Reach out to Disability and Access Services (DAS) for guidance.

Equity

Currently, OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 is open-access and free but more prone to producing incorrect (“hallucinated”) responses. ChatGPT-4 is much “better” than ChatGPT-3.5 but costs $20/month. Bing, Microsoft’s version, has comparable capability to ChatGPT-4 and is “free” but requires a Microsoft account and must be used in the Microsoft Edge browser. Without some planning on your part, some students in your class will have access to ChatGPT-4, while others may only have ChatGPT-3.5 or Bing. See the Assessments & Assignments section for ideas for more equitable incorporation of GenAI in your subjects.

Accessibility

Concerning accessibility, writing in Wired, Pia Ceres writes, “completely barring ChatGPT from classrooms, tempting as that may be, could introduce a host of new problems. Torrey Trust at the University of Massachusetts Amherst studies how teachers use technology to reshape learning. She points out that reverting to analog forms of assessment, like oral exams, can put students with disabilities at a disadvantage.” (Ceres, 2023)

See the Transparency in Learning and Teaching project for additional resources for developing transparent and equitable assignments and assessments or contact MIT’s Disability and Access Services (DAS) .

Student Privacy

If you would like students to engage with AI-generated content in your subjects, consider student privacy issues (e.g., ChatGPT is an open-access tool, not supported by IS&T and not subject to MIT’s student data safeguards), as well as the ethics of mandating that students use the tool. Read and encourage all students to read ChatGPT’s privacy policy, which states that data collected by ChatGPT can be shared with third-party vendors, law enforcement, affiliates, and other users, and the terms of use, which states that “you must be 18 years or older and able to form a binding contract with OpenAI to use the Services” (i.e., students under 18 years old should not be asked to use the tool.) Users can request to delete their ChatGPT account, but all prompts and inputs to the site cannot be removed. Writing in her blog, Jill Walker Rettberg, professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen in Norway, notes, “OpenAI knows my email and the country I am connecting from, so they can assume my judgements [sic] about how ChatGPT responds to me align with “Norwegian values.” OpenAI also knows what device, browser and operating system I am using, which can be a proxy for class and socio-economic status.” (Rettberg, 2022)

To address data privacy concerns, consider ways that students can use AI-generated content without generating it themselves (E.g., you or a TA volunteer could enter questions/prompts as specified by students and share them for use in the assignment).

For additional guidance re student privacy and GAI use, see MIT Sloan’s Generative AI for Teaching & Learning Resources Hub

Teaching + Learning Lab Staff are available to help you address these concerns.

MIT Resources and Support

Staff from TLL and Open Learning-Residential are available to facilitate discussions within MIT DLCs on the topic of Teaching with GenAI . MIT community members can email ai-teaching@mit.edu to arrange a session. If you’d like to facilitate your own discussion – a customizable slide deck is available here . [You will be prompted to make a copy.]

Sloan – Teaching & Learning with Generative AI Hub

Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writin g , Profs. Ed Schiappa and Nicholas Montfort, Comparative Media Studies & Writing @ MIT.

If you are an MIT community member and have resources you’d like to share, please email us at: ai-teaching@mit.edu.

1 The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale states: “Reflective teaching involves examining one’s underlying beliefs about teaching and learning and one’s alignment with actual classroom practice before, during, and after a course is taught. When teaching reflectively, instructors think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of effective teaching.”

2 For a good overview of what LLMs are and how they work, see. Kevin Rose and Cade Metz, On Tech: AI Newsletter series: How to Become an Expert on A.I. , New York Times , 7 April 2023.

Additional Resources on the Use of Generative AI in Teaching & Learning

(updated April 2025)

General

  • GAI Basics: a Technical Primer – MT Sloan , Rama Ramakrishnan, MIT Sloan (Video); part of Sloan Technology Services AI Hub
  • An MIT Exploration of Generative AI
  • Teaching + Learning Lab GAI Blog posts
  • Open AI’s ChatGPT documentation

In Teaching & Learning

Overview
  • AI Meets Education at Stanford (AIMES)
  • Generative AI in Teaching & Learning – Teaching Hub, University of Virginia
  • OSU Faculty Recommendations
  • Philippa Hardman’s AI Learning Taxonomy
  • How should AI-generated content be labeled? MIT Sloan
  • There are some incredible folks writing about this on Substack . We recommend: Marc Watkins – Rhetorica Beyond ChatGPT Series: Reading: No One is Talking About AI’s Impact on Reading AI’s Promise to Pay Attention for You Teaching is Not a Problem for AI to Solve Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing All of Mollick’s posts interesting and thought provoking Ethan & Lillach Mollick have a very useful paper called: Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts (note that this article addresses teaching practices (rather than student work)) Ethan Mollick’s examples of elaborate prompts in Assigning AI: 7 Ways of using AI in Class Ai x Education Josh Brake – The Absent Minded Professor Lance Eaton – AI + Education = Simplified Eric Hudson – Teaching on Purpose Nick Potkalitsky – Educating AI Emily Pitts Donahoe – Unmaking the Grade See additional authors/Substacks in the sections below
  • OpenAI Teaching w/ChatGPT Handbook
  • MIT Physics YouTube Playlist: Impact of ChatGPT
  • Applying the Science of Learning in Your Teaching: Generative AI May Help , MIT TLL Blog.
  • Acceptable GAI-use: Syllabus Statements: KTCP syllabus statement Lance Eaton: Crowd-sourced Google Doc (caveat emptor: some statements are from the dawn of GPTs) Derek Bruff: Show us your syllabus – Chatbot edition The Best AI Policies I’ve Seen So Far Daniel Stanford’s Substack Other syllabus statements from TLL
Writing
Assessments
  • Derek Bruff, Agile Learning Blog Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Reading Response Edition , Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Essay Edition
  • Integrating AI into Assignments to Support Student Learning , UVA Teaching Hub
  • Marc Watkins, CHE – Make AI Part of the Assignment : Include an AI-assisted Learning Template as part of student assignments
  • Rethinking Your Problem Sets in the World of Generative AI , MIT TLL
  • Reimagining Assessments in the Age of AI , aixeducation.substack.com:
  • Assessment for Reform in the Age of Artificial Intelligence , TESQA – Australia
  • Appendices B-F of Cornell’s Committee Report: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Education and Pedagogy Appendix B: Courses that develop writing as a skill Appendix C: Creative courses for music, literature, and art Appendix D: Courses in social sciences Appendix E: Mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering Appendix F: Courses in programming
  • Filling in Research Gaps with Generative AI . Carrick, T.H. (2023). John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
  • Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students, with Prompts , Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, (June 12, 2023).
  • New Modes of Learning Enabled by AI Chatbots: Three Methods and Assignments (December 13, 2022).
  • Daniel Stanford. Incorporating AI in Teaching: Practical Examples for Busy Instructors
  • Brett Becker. Programming Is Hard – Or at Least It Used to Be: Educational Opportunities And Challenges of AI Code Generation
  • Ryan Cordell. Building a (better) book) – Course taught at UIUC: Lab 1: Amanuenses to AI
Prompt Engineering
  • Coursera Course: Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
  • Ethan Mollick’s examples of elaborate prompts in Assigning AI: 7 Ways of using AI in Class
  • Open AI’s documentation on prompt engineering
Biases
  • Researchers reduce bias in AI models while preserving or improving accuracy | MIT News, December, 2024
  • How Harmful Are AI’s Biases on Diverse Student Populations? | Stanford HAI, October 2024
  • Generative AI bias poses risk to democratic values, research suggests , Science X, February 2025
  • Lauren Leffer, Humans Absorb Bias from AI—And Keep It after They Stop Using the Algorithm , Scientific American
  • Better images of AI A site to combat bias in AI generated images
  • Navigating The Biases In LLM Generative AI: A Guide To Responsible Implementation
  • Broader implications and critical perspectives: Section 6, p. 24 of Perry Share’s compilation )
  • Humans are Biased Generative AI is Even Worse , Bloomberg, 2023.
AI Detection Tools 1
  • Generative AI and Policy Development: Guidance from the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI , April 2024.
  • Anna Mills, Why I’m using AI detection after all, alongside many other strategies , February 2025.
  • Christopher Ostro A big picture look at AI detection tools , Teaching in Higher Ed podcast Slides Video
  • Laura Dumin, AI detectors: A look at some arguments and where I ended up , February 2025.
  • Derek Newton – The Cheat Sheet ,academic honesty blogger with many posts on the use of AI detection software.
  • University of Sydney What to do about assessments if we can’t out-design or out-run AI? , Danny Liu and Adam Bridgeman, 2023 Follow-up FAQ , 2025
  • Joseph Thibault, Agentic AI & Academic Integrity .
  • AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to Do Instead , MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning Technologies,

References

Chi, M. T., De Leeuw, N., Chiu, M., & Lavancher, C. (1994). Eliciting self-explanations improves understanding. Cognitive Science , 18(3), 439-477. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0364021394900167

Gleason, Nancy (2022). ChatGPT and the rise of AI writers: How should higher education respond? Times Higher Education .

McKnight, Lucinda (2022). Eight ways to engage with AI writers in higher education. Times Higher Education .

Mollick, E., & Mollick, L. (2022). New modes of learning enabled by AI chatbots: Three methods and assignments. Social Science Research Network . https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4300783

Warner, J. (2022, August 31). The biggest mistake I see college freshmen make. Slate Magazine . https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/08/advice-to-first-year-college-students-on-freshman-comp.html

  • Thanks to Dr. Rachel Remmel at the University of Rochester TLC for passing along many of these resources ↩︎