The full Board of Education will read the proposed policy for the first time at its Thursday retreat.
The proposed policy says the district "is not banning the student or teacher use of AI, but each student will need to be aware of the limitations and guidelines of its usage."
"AI use by students must align with district policies and regulations around academic integrity, such that students may not misrepresent AI or partially AI-generated work as their own," according to the proposed policy.
If a staff member would like to use AI tools, the proposed policy says "they must do so in a manner consistent with a code of conduct."
"For example, individual student reports must reflect staff members' professional own analysis and their sense of the authentic needs of the student being discussed," according to the draft policy.
Administrators, however, are not allowed to use AI to create employee-performance documents, the proposed policy says.
While Michael-Joseph Mercanti-Anthony, chair of the school board's policy governance committee, said this draft policy is geared toward guiding "the district during these still early days" of AI, the policy says "the board understands that, as with any new technology, the understanding of appropriate use may evolve with time."
The draft policy also requests that the superintendent develop a regulation that dictates how AI should be used "for innovative, organizational and management" purposes and it must be updated to "keep pace with technology advancements."
Superintendent Toni Jones said GPS "already has the regulation how AI is utilized at the school level," which was last updated on July 2.
The district regulation provides detailed guidance on ways students and staff members should and should not use AI, whereas Jones said the proposed board policy indicates how the school board is committing to ensuring AI will be used with "honesty and integrity" in GPS classrooms.
Mercanti-Anthony said he hopes the board's proposed AI policy "lays out a middle ground" between prohibiting student and staff use of AI and taking a hands-off approach when it comes to governing how the district handles this form of technology.
"I'm hopeful we have struck the right balance to provide appropriate guidelines while nurturing innovation and 21st-century learning," he said.
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