“Our role is to help guide people to understand how these tools can operate, where we can be led astray and where they can support us,” said Brock Craft, an associate teaching professor in the UW Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering. Many schools districts and other K-12 institutions have banned ChatGPT, the popular tool from OpenAI that instantly produces content based on prompts. But the UW is adopting more flexible strategies, and issued guidance in January suggesting that instructors set clear course policies and communicate the importance of college learning, among other ideas. Higher education institutions elsewhere are also beginning to formulate policies.
