In March 2023, the IBO updated its Academic Integrity policy addressing AI, highlights include:
- "AI tools do not threaten the underlying principles of what the IB values".( Academic integrity policy, p53)
- "AI tools do not represent a crisis in education or assessment".( Academic integrity policy, p53)
- "The IB aims to avoid joining the “arms race” between AI tools that claim to be able to tell the difference between AI and human authors". (Academic integrity policy, p54)
- "It is not realistic to prevent the use of these tools as they will rapidly become commonplace, but the IB believes that schools should explain ethical behaviour when using these tools, and why they often are not the most useful piece of software." (Academic Integrity policy, p54)
- "The IB will not ban the use of AI software. The simplest reason is that it is the wrong way to deal with innovation. Over the next few years, the use of this kind of software will become as routine as calculators and translation programs". (Academic integrity policy, p53)
- “Teachers are the best placed to know what a student is capable of and when a piece of work appears not to have been written by that student." (Academic integrity policy, p54).
IB have provided the following guidance on how students can correctly reference AI tools and maintain academic integrity:
- Cite all sources, including texts and images from AI tools - both in the body of the work and in the bibliography.
- Use quotation marks for references in the text- use a reference style already in use in the school: for example, "The development of the tools and variables required for..." (text taken from ChatGPT, 2023)
- Bibliography: include the prompt that the learner provided to the AI tool and the date it generated the text: for example, Open AI (27 March 2023), ChatGPT response to example prompt about example topic.
