Top university limits use of AI tools

Fudan University, a top-notch university in Shanghai, has recently issued a regulation on the use of AI tools in writing undergraduate graduation theses, detailing areas where AI is permitted to facilitate research and where AI is banned.

The university announced in its regulation that Generative AI and other AI-empowered tools are not allowed to be used in choosing research topics, designing research methods, building algorithms and models, analyzing data, presenting results, discussions and conclusions, or summarizing implications in the thesis-writing process.

It also bans AI tools from generating or changing raw data and creating figures based on the results of experiments. The main body, acknowledgments and other sections of the theses cannot be written by AI, nor can AI be used to polish up the language or do translation work.