For the past few weeks, ChatGPT has been thrilling teachers: the AI, capable of many feats in terms of written production, is gradually arriving in lecture halls and classrooms.
If an American university has already positioned itself, in France, that had not yet been the case.
Sciences Po opens the ball with an email sent to teachers and made public by BFMTV.
A sanction up to exclusion
The school's director of training and research, Sergei Guriev, has thus specified the contours of possible use of the AI in progress, which "strongly questions the actors of education and research in the world on the subject of fraud in general, and plagiarism in particular”.
The use of ChatGPT "or any other tool using AI"?
“With the exception of pedagogical use supervised by a teacher, [it is] for the moment strictly prohibited during the production of written or oral work by students under penalty of sanctions which can go as far as to the exclusion of the establishment or even of higher education.
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But as the subject is on everyone's lips, it is not a question of the school pretending that AI does not exist.
"The issues related to these language generation tools will inevitably and quickly change teaching practices and teaching evaluations," said the director in this letter.
He also added the distribution of a note on the subject to support teachers.
A new project on the table
A brand new project was also launched this year, winner of the future investment program (PIA).
"Transforming Interdisciplinary Education and Research for Evolving Democracies" (TIERED) intends to seriously consider the place of AI in the teaching and research of the future.
