Student Guidance

Students must familiarize themselves with the SMU Student Code of Conduct by visiting the main Student Affairs website. Additionally, students should review any School- or College-specific guidance, and understand how to maintain academic integrity.

Students should expect every course to include an explicit statement about the use or prohibition of Generative AI use and must respect the disciplinary and course-specific differences across the curriculum.

For any unclear areas, students should discuss the parameters with their instructors as questions arise. Students should treat the use of AI as they would assistance from another person (e.g., another person cannot substantially complete a task like writing an essay, so it is also unacceptable to have AI complete that task).

Students should familiarize themselves with SMU’s guidance on privacy and data security. Having access to data does not mean students have permission to scrape the data or use it to train an AI model.

Whether AI is permissible or not, it should never replace learning but serve as a partner. Students and faculty may have values-based reasons for using or not using AI, and open discussion about AI use is recommended in these cases.