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Defining AI 

Faculty Use – Defining AI 

Strategy: Establish Clear AI Use Boundaries to Support Ethical Policy Analysis

Artificial Intelligence can be integrated into policy-focused courses as a targeted support tool when accompanied by clear guidelines that define appropriate and inappropriate uses. By aligning students’ AI use with a course-specific AI policy, instructors can reduce over-reliance on AI-generated content while helping students develop ethical, analytical, and advocacy-oriented skills grounded in disciplinary goals. 

SOW6235 - Hearing Conservation

In SOW 6235 Foundations of Social 911±¬ÁÏÍølfare Policy Practice, Dr. David Kilmnick collaborated with Learning Designer Michael Rodríguez Delgado to address concerns around students’ potential over-reliance on AI for written policy assignments. 

During early planning discussions, the team identified that students could use AI to fully generate written policy testimonies, which would undermine the course’s emphasis on critical analysis, advocacy, and ethical reasoning. Rather than prohibiting AI use entirely, the instructor opted to develop a course-specific AI requirement that clearly articulated how AI could, and could not, be used within the context of policy-focused assignments.

Based on this requirement, AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot were integrated as support tools rather than content generators. 911±¬ÁÏÍø were guided to use AI for tasks such as locating relevant statistics, refining language for clarity and professionalism, and synthesizing concise background information, while retaining responsibility for analysis, argumentation, and interpretation. This structured approach reinforced ethical AI use, clarified expectations for students, and ensured that AI supported, rather than replaced, the core learning objectives of policy analysis and advocacy. 

AI Tools Used: ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot