My policy on artificial intelligence has been evolving and will continue to change. When coupled with the corrosive cognitive effects of contemporary social media, AI is overwhelmingly negative to learning. Its creators have an economic incentive to foster dependency. Like all tech frontiers, each corporate empire needs to grab as much land as possible and then once settled, begin extracting wealth from and exploiting that dependent user base. So, this is my current policy on using AI in my classes:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy (as of Spring 2025): Do not have ANY creative content generated by AI systems in your final work for any project in this class. This includes images, video, audio, or written works. If you turn in work generated by AI to any of the assignments in this class, the assignment will be given a grade of zero (F). If you turn in more than one AI generated work in this class, you will fail this class. AI is your assistant, not your replacement, but its creators are happy to let it try to replace you and market it as such. AI is not a replacement to individual human creativity, ingenuity, and all the individual moments, experiences, sensibilities, and emotions that make your life a meaningful, unique event. These aspects of your nature are the source of your capacity for art, and you have a responsibility to nurture and grow this fundamental and essential part of your humanity. AI has the tendency to reduce the creative process to that of shopping and similarly reduces the artist to a consumer. Keep AI in its place or it will suffocate and limit your creative potential. If you are not sure if you are using AI appropriately, please ask.