23  Generative AI

Notice that 30% of the assessments is oral and in-class while the 20% report is on Cadmus. These modes of assessments are deliberately chosen to minimise the direct influence of generative AI.

This choice does not imply that you cannot use generative AI tools at all. My position is that you can use generative AI tools as supporting tools but the ultimate product should be yours and it should be sufficiently different from what a generative AI tool generates, especially when it strays from the correct answer.

This means that if you have an answer that sounds vaguely in the right direction but I can almost perfectly replicate it with a generative AI tool, I reserve the right to give you 0 for that answer because your contribution to the answer is effectively nothing.

I personnaly try to stay away from any products from openAI (i.e. ChatGPT). The actions from the company have convinced me that they do not care about the welfare of their users in general and they actively encourage cheating in a teaching context. As of January 2026, I prefer Google Gemini and Claude from Anthropic. This is my personal opinion and it will not affect my judgement of how you use any of these tools.

What NOT to use generative AI for!

• Do not let generative AI summarise the case studies. You cannot, under any circumstances, upload the case studies to an online generative AI website. You are violating the copyright of the publishers of these case studies. Of all the generative AI rules, this is the most important one.
• Do not use generative AI to write your report. In Cadmus, you are not allowed to copy and paste text and I can see when you do. If you let a tool write your report, I will be able to see it and I can see who in the group has done it. You have to type the text yourself.
• Do not use generative AI to write your speech for the presentation or evaluation. While I cannot literally observe when you do this, it is very hard to present well when you do not understand what you are saying or when the text is not in your own voice. It will sound unnatural and it will affect your marks negatively. Know that I will ask follow-up questions with the evaluation to check whether you understand what you are saying.

What you can use generative AI for.

• Brainstorming and Idea Generation. You can use these tools to generate initial ideas. I find these tools most useful when you do not have any idea and you need to make a start. Do not take these initial ideas as correct but examine them and ask follow-up questions.
  
• Clarification When there are parts of the teaching material or case study that are not clear, these tools can help you if you ask for clarification on specific terminology. They can rephrase sections to make it clearer. I will also make my lecture notes available in a way that they can easily be queried by a large language model. Because I write my own lecture notes, I can share them freely without any copyright restrictions.
• Structuring loose ideas Once you have multiple ideas and you want to write them up in a coherent text. These tools are pretty good at summarising loose ideas and structuring them in a seeminly coherent way. Still, be critical they are often too glib and try to smooth over contradictions with vague language. I will pick up on these contradictions.
• Presentation Slides and Visuals You can use these tools to make (part of) your presentation slides and visuals if you feel that it supports the core goal of the slides: They are guiding the audience or they are clarifying your answer visually. Great looking slides can also be a distraction both in terms of the audience attention, as in terms of how much time you spend on them instead of providing good answers to the questions. Be careful.