T14 Law School Is One Of First To Set Guidelines For Student Use Of ChatGPT
The elite school is allowing some but not all possible student uses of the AI technology.
Final exams are just around the corner, and with law schools growing increasingly worried about students using ChatGPT to assist them, some have begun to adopt policies restricting student use of generative artificial intelligence programs.
Berkeley Law is one of the very first law schools to do so.
Reuters has additional details on the Berkeley policy on ChatGPT:
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The policy, rolled out April 14, allows students to use AI technology to conduct research or correct grammar. But it may not be used on exams or to compose any submitted assignments. And it can’t be employed in any way that constitutes plagiarism, which Berkeley defines as repackaging the ideas of others.
The policy means that law students would be in violation of the school’s honor code if they used ChatGPT or a similar program to draft their classwork and merely reworded the text before turning it in, said professor Chris Hoofnagle, who worked with two other faculty members to develop the policy over the past month.
The new policy is a default. Individual professors may deviate from the rules if they provide written notice to students in advance.
“The approach of finals made us realize that we had to say something,” Hoofnagle told Reuters. “We want to make sure we have clear guidelines so that students don’t inadvertently attract an honor code violation.”
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University of California Berkeley law school rolls out AI policy ahead of final exams [Reuters]
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