The development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers opportunities for creativity and productivity while simultaneously introducing privacy, quality, security, ethical, and environmental considerations. KPU has established several strategic commitments to guide its use of Generative AI for teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Generative AI Strategic Commitments
- Enhance student learning through thoughtful AI integration
- Support development in AI learning and innovation
- Maintain meaningful human connections in AI-enhanced environments
- Careful consideration of environmental impact of AI implementations
- Ensure resource allocation aligns with institutional goals and capacity
- Maintain long-term institutional quality through balanced AI adoption
- Promote innovative teaching and learning approaches
- Support research innovation while maintaining integrity
- Encourage creative problem-solving in AI implementation with safety and security
- Center decolonial approaches in AI adoption
- Advance antiracist practices in AI use
- Ensure equitable access and inclusive implementation
- Maintain high standards in AI-enhanced activities
- Commitment to continuous improvement
- Ensure accountability in AI implementation
- Promote transparency in AI use and outcomes
Guidelines
KPU encourages the responsible use of generative AI. Groups across KPU have developed guidelines that provide direction for the use of GenAI across all institutional activities. These guidelines apply to staff, faculty, students, and researchers working at KPU. Compliance with applicable provincial and federal legislation and institutional guidance ensures we have a secure, ethical, and sustainable model for GenAI use at KPU while supporting individual agency and academic freedom.
Core Principles
Underpinning KPU’s strategic commitments and guidelines are several core principles that define how KPU and its communities approach, consider, and use Generative AI tools and practices. KPU is committed to supporting innovative AI integration in teaching, learning, and research while maintaining high standards of academic integrity.
Respectful
- Respecting intellectual property and copyright when using generative AI requires careful consideration of both inputs and outputs.
- Refrain from uploading/inputting copyrighted materials into AI systems without permission.
- Output generated by AI may use or closely mimic copyrighted content without disclosure, creating risks for those who share or publish that material. Proper attribution, verification, and review of AI-generated content is key.
- Respect the originality of scholarly and creative work.
Explainable
All users must be able to articulate how, why, and when AI is used in their day-to-day work. AI tools are not the best choice in every situation, and it should be clearly indicated when AI has been used to develop content.
Ethical
AI tools can produce content that is discriminatory, based on biases, and/or reproduces systemic inequities. KPU is committed to equity, decolonial, and anti-racist practices. Therefore, it is vital to critically assess whether GenAI is appropriate for the task and thoroughly review all information for accuracy, embedded stereotypes, and discriminatory narratives.
Users must:
- Respect Indigenous protocols and community-specific data governance.
- Avoid using AI to generate, reproduce, or distribute Indigenous knowledge without explicit permission.
Secure
All users are responsible for protecting private and confidential information as well as complying with applicable provincial or federal legislation (such as FIPPA) and institutional IT regulations on the use of AI products and services.
- KPU student work cannot be inputted into any GenAI tool without their explicit consent.
- The use of GenAI tools must be aligned with KPU policies and procedures for technology use and the management of confidential and private information.
Accountable
All users are responsible and accountable for content created by these tools, representation of this work, and the impact of their use. This includes ensuring that the generated content is accurate, legal, ethical, and compliant with KPU’s policies and procedures.
Accessible
KPU promotes an inclusive environment for all. GenAI can support accessibility in a number of ways. It can provide alternate formats for materials, translate content, generate descriptive text for images, and more. When implemented thoughtfully, GenAI tools can help reduce barriers. It is important to evaluate implementation to ensure uses of GenAI continues to be accessible to support inclusive environments.
Sustainable
KPU is committed to understanding and minimizing the ecological impact of AI integration in our operations. Use of AI should be determined in part through an analysis of the environmental impact of the adoption of new tools.