With the wide-ranging implications and uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education, research, and daily activities, we've compiled an overview of resources, training, and guidance to support you in your work.
This page consolidates policies and information hubs from across our School, as highlighted below, to help you better understand the risks and opportunities within this rapidly developing field and how they apply to your role at LSE.
Core elements to explore:
- AI in education and assessment
- AI in research
- Legal and regulatory guidance on the use of AI for staff
- Student guidance on the use of AI.
Beyond this, you’ll find additional helpful links, including guiding principles on the use of AI for communications, LSE research, blogs on the topic, and more.
If you have specific AI guidance you'd like to share, please let us know by emailing communications.internal@lse.ac.uk, so we can update this page.
Guidance for your work – key policies
Before using AI in your role, consider several factors, including ethical use, data protection, and preserving your intellectual property.
The LSE’s AI guidance framework brings together legal, research, and educational considerations into a holistic vision that also reflects the specialised needs of each domain.
The above Venn diagram represents how the three domains: Legal and Regulatory, Research, and Education connect with each other regarding the School's AI guidance.
Each domain has specific focus areas: Legal and Regulatory includes Competition law, equality law, and confidentiality. Research includes publisher requirements, funder requirements, and methodology. Education includes assessment policies, teaching and learning practices. The overlaps are: Admissions/Recruitment (legal plus education), academic integrity (research plus education), and contracts (legal plus research). At the centre are areas that apply to every domain and all members of the LSE community: Data privacy, copyright and IP, accountability, critical evaluation, and transparency.
LSE’s key policies and guidance on the use of AI include:
For both research and education, you can find extensive information through our dedicated hubs on AI use.
Training and resources
Open to staff and students, this self-study Moodle course aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of generative AI tools. You'll learn how generative AI works, how to use generative models ethically, the most effective ways of working with various AI tools, and more. The course also outlines LSE's policy on using generative AI tools in academic work.
Visit: Take the Moodle course
Staff and students can use Microsoft CoPilot, an AI tool that utilises OpenAI's latest models, ChatGPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E 3, to generate text and image outputs. This tool offers the same robust, enterprise-level privacy and security features as the rest of Microsoft’s Office365 suite.
Visit: CoPilot at LSE
Key guidance
Visit the Eden Centre hub on AI to explore current approaches to the issues raised by the potential and evolving impact of generative AI tools on education and assessment. Find resources to support you and discover how colleagues are incorporating generative AI into their teaching and assessments.
Visit: Eden’s hub on AI in education and assessment
Our guidance on the use of AI in research has been compiled in collaboration with the Data Science Institute (DSI). It includes essential core guidance and lots of examples on how it can be used effectively to support research activities.
Visit: DSI’s hub on AI in research
Alongside the hub, researchers considering the use of AI should also review the following related documents:
We will continue to update this guidance as more information and resources become available.
Further guidance
For students, AI policy is determined by their individual departments and / or courses, as outlined by the School’s position on generative AI. These should be communicated clearly to students at the start of the year and reinforced at key points.
All students at LSE also have access to Microsoft CoPilot, an AI tool that utilises OpenAI's latest models, ChatGPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E 3, to generate its text and image outputs and has the same robust, enterprise-level privacy and security features as the rest of Microsoft’s Office365 suite. You can also find information on using Copilot in your studies.
We will continue to update this information as we gather more resources from across the School to help students understand the use of AI at LSE.
AI offers exciting opportunities for communicators by enhancing the development of images, videos, idea generation, and tone of voice, making it crucial to understand and become proficient in using these tools. Explore our guiding principles for best practices, covering accuracy, authenticity, and the AI tools available to us for content creation, as well as associated risks, considerations, and tips on maximising their potential.
Visit: AI and Communications at LSE
More to explore
Through research, teaching, and outreach, the Data Science Institute (DSI) focuses on emerging AI technologies and their societal, economic, and political ramifications. Discover opportunities to study AI and Data Science at LSE, including our Ethics of AI online masterclass – as well as research groups and a huge array of events, podcasts, and blogs on generative AI.
Visit: DSI's AI at LSE
Take a look at highlights covering artificial intelligence in LSE’s Research for the World online magazine. Released quarterly, each edition showcases our research and academic work, along with its relevance to policymakers, practitioners, and the general public.
Visit: Research for the World magazine
Based in the Department of Media and Commuinications, JournalismAI is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly. JournalismAI is a project of Polis – the LSE's journalism think-tank – and is supported by the Google News Initiative.
Visit: JournalismAI
Within the LSE Law Technology and Society group, the AI, Ethics and Governance group represent research at the cutting edge of law and technology. Find out more about their work.
Visit: LSE Law’s AI Ethics and Governance
The LSE Students’ Union (LSESU) AI Society is a student group dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence, offering events, discussions, and networking opportunities.
Visit: LSESU AI Society