Our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Posture for students
The University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Posture outlined below is presented as a starting point for conversation and debate for the community, staff, students and wider participants to consider issues regarding what is commonly called Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Artificial intelligence has become a catch-all term to describe various technologies, products and services.
In a world where AI is increasingly present, we recognise that our students hold a range of views about its role in creative practice.
Understanding this broad sociotechnical condition is a key critical project at Norwich University of the Arts.
Following conversations with staff and students, we:
- Take the position that creative education remains intrinsically valuable and fundamental to society.
- Believe that creativity is a process and not an output.
- Recognise the concern about AI expressed by some students as they see the creative industries change rapidly, often within the time of their studies.
In this time of rapid change, we commit to the following:
- An education that prioritises individual development, learning and creativity.
- Offering discipline-relevant and general AI skills, so that students and colleagues are practically and critically aware of the professional world into which students will graduate.
- Providing students and colleagues with a set of critical skills to help discern bias and equity in our increasingly computational world, to develop individual and shared values in relation to the use of Artificial Intelligence.
- Practice holistic assessment that values the full scope of students’ work, including any informed use of AI.
- Produce assessment of, and feedback on, student work that is performed by the academic team, not by AI.
Above all, education at Norwich University of the Arts is designed to develop confidence in the value and place of individual and collective human creativity.
This includes a commitment to understanding the impact of AI technologies on society, politics and the economy, on the world of work, and on global climate, just as we consider the impact of all aspects of our material world across our subjects – for example, the impact of fast fashion, product life-cycle, and the built environment.
We are aware that many AI tools are hugely valuable and are already embedded in everyday digital products that are now core to the creative industries and to our work. (some of the things we use AI for include, for instance, coding, media production, grammar and spellchecking, project research, game development, transcription for accessibility, data processing, etc.).
As a provider of world class creative education, we facilitate critical technology practice and media experimentation with AI.
More importantly, we believe that creative education is even more valuable — and important — in a world that is being cha(lle)nged by AI.
Learn more about our Creative Learning Strategy
Further guidance and information for students is available in our Student AI Toolkit on the VLE: