With the increasing use of AI, there are some important things to remember when you are using AI for course activities.
Remember:
Ask AI to provide information related to a topic you might be interested in but are unfamiliar.
Ask AI to assist you in narrowing topic ideas for a research paper or identify keywords for searching in library databases.
AI can help you break down and understand a complex concept or assignment.
A number of AI tools can summarize or outline articles freely available online.
The library resource, JSTOR is currently testing an AI Interactive Research tool
You can ask multiple questions without being judged.
**Be sure to fact check responses with non-AI sources
**Don't share any personal information.
AI may make up credible-sounding citations to sources that do not exist, or give inaccurate information.
Several of our resources are integrating AI technology, but for now, it is best to use the Library's Enterprise One Search or one of the Library's Databases
Most AI tools including literature search tools such as Research Rabbit or Elicit do not have access to the full range or full text of articles that are behind a paywall.
**Using the library resources will give access to millions of articles that are not currently available to AI tools.
There has been a lot of conversation about AI limitations related to ethics, privacy, bias, labor and environmental impact.
AI tools can only produce results based on the data they have been trained on. Some free AI tools do not currently include current events and may only reference datasets prior to 2022.
Asking for any information that would have dire consequences if it was incorrect (such as health, financial, legal advice, and so on). This is because of AI's tendency to sometimes make up answers, but still sound very confident