Recommendations for and Beliefs about AI Use at Kwajalein Junior Senior High School: 

Dear Kwajalein Schools Community,

The following document reflects our beliefs and recommendations for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) at Kwajalein Junior Senior High School. 

Beliefs:

1. We believe that AI plagiarizes data and has the potential to create false information about existing topics, otherwise known as hallucinations.

2. We believe that AI is now a common tool not new to those who have worked in creating it, but new to those who wish to use it. It is a tool that uses data found on the internet, to not only answer questions (or prompts), but also to create. Yet, its creations are not truly of its own imagination, it combines images found on the web to create its own, it doesn’t think for itself, it takes information from human sources to give not an answer, but its best guess (AI doesn’t have accurate information/answers to all questions). This is due to limits in context, variation and cultural remarks. In a battle of the wits between a toddler and AI, a toddler would learn to differentiate between a real kangaroo and a kangaroo on a cup faster than AI. 

3. We believe that the process AI uses to create art is modeled after human processes. AI takes information from the outer sources to form a result; humans do the same. To ask AI to do something is similar to asking a (human) friend to do the same thing. Imagination is a complex created over time in a human’s mind. A human takes in information from outer sources and is inspired to create art. What matters is that humans build imagination over time. 

4. We believe that AI is corruptive to human-made art and pulls information from the data that it was programmed with. AI creates art by taking hundreds of other images and putting them together to create one new original image. Yes, using AI to create art can be useful in some scenarios, but it does not create its own original art. 

5. Writing created by AI doesn’t have the humanlike qualities that would contribute to getting a high score if grade inflation wasn’t a thing. Grade inflation doesn't allow some students to reach their full potential and sometimes gives good grades to undeserving students. In the case that grade inflation was no longer a problem, students who use AI would be disappointed at their decrease in scores. 

6. We believe that AI’s work isn’t considered a form of art. From Oxford Languages, art is defined as “The expression of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” AI lacks human creativity, originality, and emotionality from imagination and cannot be considered a form of art. 

7. We believe AI writing, at least in its current state, cannot reach the highest level of writing, because it lacks the ingenuity, creativity and overall thoughtfulness of human emotion and conception.

8. We believe the school should restrict the use of AI, not to prevent students from using it, but to provide a tool solely for guidance and tutoring. This would help them with writing, and at the same time, compel them to form original thoughts. Allowing students to enjoy using the vast knowledge of AI while not taking away from the gift of using one's true creativity to produce human-made writing. 

Action Items

1. We suggest that someone of a higher authority in our school community needs to establish what is considered cheating when it involves AI. Survey results posted by The Student Edge show that 42% of high school students use generative AI to assist with their assignments. Another survey (posted by The Student Edge) reporting on whether or not high school students saw using generative AI as cheating showed that only 27% of students held the belief that using generative AI for assignments was cheating. 

   1. We suggest that AI (if used in school) should be used as guidance and tutor. AI could be cited in assignments in order to acknowledge that the writing didn't come from the writer themself as it was originally copied directly from a generative AI source. Using direct quotes is recommended in order to further acknowledge the source material. We also believe if AI is used in any way for an assignment then it should be mentioned at the end of an assignment, like a reference page.

2. Because of AI’s popularity and the opportunity that it gives students to cheat, we should educate our students and community about its ability, potential uses, and have regulations about its use in our school. One way to accomplish this would be to have exams, oral and written, that encourage special human qualities that a computer wouldn’t be able to achieve. This would make sure that students couldn’t just copy and paste an AI - written essay. Another option is to use GoGuardian to restrict certain sites, disabling the use of AI during school hours. 

3. Because of AI's growth in popularity, we should educate our students and community about its ability and potential uses.

4. Because AI plagiarizes by taking the works of authors and artists, plagiarizing is a form of cheating meaning AI shouldn’t be considered a reliable resource. 

5. AI makes it easy for us to be lazy and we don’t challenge ourselves enough to learn and experience prompt engineering.We suggest that we restrict AI so it can guide people rather than give them answers directly. 

6. We suggest that AI should be more transparent and help humans understand what is being said. Whenever ChatGPT is asked to help with something, they commonly provide a list rather than do something different. 

Sincerely, 

10th grade, Class of 2026:

Taylor George Aboud

Joseph Haison Aragon                                         

Curtis Brown \(>o<)/  

Mason Miguel M. Finley 

Cory Parker Holt

Yamila Johnson 

Synia Kabua

Limalani Batti Mary Elizabeth Lelet 

Dominic Pablo Pace 

Jonielle Leafaitulagi Tagoilelagi Patrick

Jacob Raúl Waite
Lauren Paige Wyatt

James Robert Zink