Writing instructions

The teacher may deny the use of AI in a course, assignment or exam. Each institution of higher education has its own policies, which may differ from these guidelines.

Pay attention to the following when you are using AI tools:

• Responsibility: The author is always responsible for their output.
• Knowledge: Artificial Intelligence Systems are only programs and have limitations, and artificial intelligence does not have competence or understanding of content. Be aware of these limitations so that you can assess the suitability of the use of artificial intelligence in different situations.
• Ethical principles: Observe general ethical principles, such as fairness, equal treatment and respect for other students and teachers.

Students at universities of applied sciences are encouraged to use artificial intelligence in order to develop their own working life skills.

• Adopt: Use artificial intelligence skilfully as an assistant and support in learning
• Provide feedback: Discuss and give feedback on the success of AI use to the teacher.
• Participate in the discussion and share information: You are part of the community of the university of applied sciences. Discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and participate in initiatives of school communities and organisations to promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence
• Report: quickly on errors and problems related to the use of artificial intelligence in teaching

Personal or confidential material may not be used as input for artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence uses inputs for learning, so all the text you give it is used for this purpose and may thus end up being used by outsiders.

Licensed materials, e.g. scientific articles, may not be entered into any language models or other artificial intelligence tools. Articles with CC licenses are no exception to this rule.

Does the correctness of the result matter? If the answer is no, then you can use AI without any worries.

If the answer is no, consider whether you have the expertise to verify the result. If you do not have sufficient skills, you cannot use AI.

If yes, the next step is to consider whether you are ready to take full moral and legal responsibility for the outcome. If not, don't use AI, but if the answer is yes, you can use AI as long as you check the accuracy of every word and sentence you enter and use common sense.

You can use various AI-based tools for ideation, building a knowledge base, and information retrieval. However, it is important to remember that AI cannot replace actual development work in the workplace. Your thesis is a development work that combines theory and practice. As a student, you will create the thesis report and you are responsible for the written text and its sources.

When using an AI-powered application as part of your thesis work, it is important to keep the following principles in mind:

• Support your claims with references to sources.
• Use primary sources whenever possible, considering source criticism.
• Contents generated by AI-based applications may contain significant factual errors, so approach them with the same critical mindset as any other source. They are not suitable for fact-checking purposes but can provide valuable ideas for further development.
• AI-based applications are generally not cited as references for the above reason, as they are tools for ideation and writing rather than fact-based sources of information.
• However, if it is necessary to refer to text produced by AI because it is relevant to your work and you want to emphasize the text produced by AI, the citation guide can be found here.