{"id":1711,"date":"2025-08-06T12:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/information-technology-services\/?page_id=1711"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:16:51","slug":"ai-use","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/offices-services\/information-technology-services\/policies-security\/ai-use\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Use Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Information Technology Services: <\/span><\/strong>Associate Vice President of Technology<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Revised: <\/span><\/strong>08\/05\/25<\/span><\/p>\n

Title<\/span><\/strong>:<\/strong> AI Use Policy<\/span><\/p>\n

Applicable<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Furman University (Students, Faculty, Staff, Affiliates, Service Providers, and Products)<\/span><\/p>\n

Contacts:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>IT Service Center ext. 3277<\/span><\/p>\n

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Background<\/span><\/h3>\n

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly advancing in ways that offer both unprecedented opportunities and unique challenges for Higher Education. AI has the potential to enhance efficiency, accelerate research, and improve analysis and outcomes. It can catalyze innovation and creativity across disciplines or drive strategic interests and operations significantly beyond traditional boundaries. To this end, the University aspires to optimize its use of AI technology to responsibly harness its benefits while minimizing its risks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Use of AI technology poses important questions and concerns in addition to significant challenges and risks in various areas including ethics and morality, attribution, professional and academic integrity, privacy, bias, input data sanitization, workforce displacement, sustainability, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

While we recognize the foregoing, this policy outlines guidelines for fostering responsible and ethical use of AI technologies including the principles of safety, security, accountability, integrity, fairness, and social responsibility with deference and fidelity to Furman University\u2019s institutional values and positive societal stewardship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Definition<\/span><\/h3>\n

In this policy, Artificial Intelligence is broadly defined as any human-made or synthetic system, interface, or technology that can perform or sufficiently emulate tasks that historically require human intelligence or intervention such as reasoning, learning, higher-order decision-making, inference, perception, advanced communication, and intelligent manipulation or sophisticated interaction with humans or the physical world. AI technologies and interfaces may be hardware-based, software-based, organic, or a combination thereof.<\/span><\/p>\n

Policy<\/span><\/h3>\n

Training and Appropriate use:<\/span><\/h4>\n