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This guide offers resources to navigate the increasingly complicated landscape of generative AI in higher education. Most tabs provide a short summary of a concept and include a More Reading section with curated links that will provide additional information and food for thought. A subset of tabs provide information on generative AI tools.
If you are a novice to AI, consider starting at the What is Generative AI? tab.
If you are teaching a course or are interested in the impact of generative AI on your students’ scholarship, consider diving into the Cautions and Considerations tab and follow it up with the information in the Copyright and Intellectual Property tab for more information on the considerations (and there are many) around the use of generative AI in scholarship.
If you are a student exploring AI and you want to understand how to cite AI generated information, start with the Citations tab and take time to read the Cautions and Considerations tab.
Currently, explicit policies on the use of AI have been left up to individual faculty and departments. For more information about policies in a specific course, please consult the syllabus for each course directly.
"The UVA Faculty AI Guides are a group of UVA faculty who are helping their colleagues explore the role of generative AI in their teaching. The 2024-2025 Guides have taken a variety of thoughtful approaches to AI in their own courses, as seen here through a selection of syllabus statements."
Teaching Hub: Generative AI in Teaching and LearningThis page from the Center for Teaching Excellence offers several curated collections with practical and actionable steps for using AI in your course.
This initiative from the Darden School of Business brings together the expertise of a diverse group of scholars to examine the impact of generative AI on business, education, and more.
This page features resources gathered by the Provost’s Office and the Center for Teaching Excellence and contains The Report of the Generative AI in Teaching and Learning Task Force.
"These FAQs provide guidance about the appropriate uses of generative artificial intelligence tools in teaching and learning at the University."
Learn more about how the UVA Honor Committee is addressing AI-related concerns and benefits with the goal that "Honor’s approach to AI will be open-minded, community-based, and thoughtful."
UVA provides access to CoPilot Chat Pro through an enterprise edition and ensures that the tool meets the privacy and security requirements set by the University.
As stated on the ITS Generative AI Tools website, the "enterprise version operates within UVA’s secure environment, using data only to generate responses. Your account can only access information for which you have permissions. Data is not retained or used for training AI models."
Learn more about Copilot Chat and how to use it.
Consensus is an academic search engine for which we have an enterprise license, providing all UVA users access. It uses artificial intelligence to surface research findings which are relevant to students' questions. The search engine used by Consensus is built over the Semantic Scholar dataset (which includes 200 million peer-reviewed documents).
Learn more about Consensus and access through the UVA Library.