School of Anthropology & Society › Responsible AI Policy
AI May Assist With
Document organization, transcription support, translation drafts, coding suggestions, comparison tables, timeline creation, metadata, research planning, platform-content organization, teaching-material preparation, and draft editing.
AI Cannot Replace
- Field presence and virtual participation
- Participant relationships, trust, and consent
- Contextual knowledge and language competence
- Emotional understanding, moral judgment, and community accountability
AI Must Never Invent
- Field notes or virtual field notes
- Participants, usernames, posts, comments, interviews, or quotations
- Observations, rituals, social practices, or life histories
- Communities, platform evidence, or ethnographic findings
Required Safeguards
Human verification, transcript and translation review, screenshot verification, source preservation, AI disclosure, data-protection review, model-version recording, and correction procedures.
Content Status: DRAFT · AI-assisted; human ethics review pending. Non-degree.