Understand the ethical considerations of using AI in your academic work, including proper attribution, licensing rules, and UNSW guidelines for responsible AI use.
Using AI ethically
As with all other information sources, it is important to engage with AI resources ethically and responsibly
These are some considerations when using AI at UNSW:
Protect privacy
Protect privacy by keeping your sensitive or private data secure. Free GenAI tools can retain your personal data, therefore, entering information such as names, emails or zIDs is not advised.
Respect copyright
Respect copyright by only uploading open access or publicly available information to generative AI. Scholarly content including journal articles found in databases is protected by copyright and licencing agreements, which prohibit it being uploaded to public AI tools. Only upload open access or publicly available information to generative AI.
Disclose AI
Always be sure to disclose AI assistance when used in your assessments. It is a good idea to check with your course outline or course convenor whether the use of AI tools is permitted in your assessments.
AI and assignments
UNSW Academic Skills have information on referencing AI resources for your studies.
UNSW access to Microsoft Copilot
UNSW offers an institutional subscription to Microsoft Copilot which is available to all students. Copilot can engage in human-like conversations to answer questions, assist with generating ideas, write various forms of content and create both artistic and realistic images. This subscription includes Enterprise Data Protection, ensuring all your conversations are confidential, anonymised and not stored or used for AI training purposes.
Be sure to use your zID login (zXXXXXX@ad.unsw.edu.au) and password to log into Microsoft Copilot.
Further information
Learn more about using Microsoft Copilot at UNSW, which offers many features that can assist with a variety of academic tasks.