Policy on AI use by Pupils
Honesty and integrity are fundamental to academic work at the Grey School. Assignments allow Faculty to evaluate a pupil’s understanding and provide guidance suited to that pupil’s development. The work submitted must therefore remain the product of the pupil’s own thought, judgment, and effort.
Artificial intelligence may assist learning and research within the limits below. It may not be used to generate or complete an assignment on the pupil’s behalf. This policy applies to tools such as ChatGPT and to other AI systems capable of producing or rewriting assessed work.
Why the pupil’s own work matters
An assignment gives an instructor more than a statement of conclusions. The pupil’s reasoning, vocabulary, organization, and choices of explanation reveal how the subject has been understood. Small errors or uncertain passages may also show where further instruction would be useful.
Faculty use those details to shape feedback, recognize strengths, and identify work that needs development. When an AI system supplies the substance of an assignment, the instructor cannot assess the pupil’s learning in the same way. The pupil also loses the practice involved in forming an answer, testing a conclusion, and explaining an idea independently.
For this reason, submitting AI-generated work as one’s own is treated as an academic honesty matter, in the same way that submitting work written by another person would be. Violations may lead to discipline up to and including expulsion.
Permitted assistance
The School recognizes the place of AI in the modern world and the importance of learning to use it with judgment. Wizards who advise others about such tools should understand their uses and limits through careful experience.
Pupils may use AI to support brainstorming, planning, organization, and research. It may serve as a research partner or an aid while the pupil investigates a subject and develops an independent understanding. The pupil remains responsible for the reasoning and work ultimately submitted.
All pupils may also use AI for spelling and grammar proofreading. This permission applies whether or not English is the pupil’s first language. The purpose is to help the pupil express their own thoughts clearly while preserving their own voice.
Permitted AI assistance does not carry a routine disclosure requirement. The ordinary requirements for academic honesty, original work, and attribution of sources still apply.
Authorship and the limits of editing
AI must not generate the body of an essay or another substantial portion of an assignment. A pupil may not use the tool to supply the analysis, reflections, arguments, or other work that the assignment asks the pupil to undertake.
Proofreading must also remain within that boundary. Editing can go too far even when it begins with the pupil’s own draft. If the pupil’s voice is lost or polished away, the resulting submission may no longer show the pupil’s own work adequately. Such work may be returned as a violation of this policy.
The relevant question is whether the tool has supported the pupil’s learning and expression or has taken over the work that Faculty need to assess.
Pupils should use AI with the same discernment expected of other academic tools. Assistance is useful when it helps the pupil learn the work; the education itself must still be earned through the pupil’s own study and effort.