UWI adopts AI tool amid fears of false accusations

The University of the West Indies is introducing software to detect academic cheating involving artificial intelligence, but an information technology specialist has warned that false accusations could unfairly punish students whose work is original.

The UWI has partnered with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) to introduce IntegraGuard across its campuses this academic year, a system designed to help verify the integrity of student work amid the growing use of artificial intelligence.

But UWI Cave Hill principal Professor Clive Landis told Barbados TODAY the university’s approach is not simply about policing AI: “How do we as a university use AI in our teaching and learning? Well, we have an AI policy, and it states very clearly that we want our students to be very AI literate. We want them to use it, to know how to use it.”