GenAI Values

Using generative AI well at Boise State means developing approaches and policies rooted in our values. Developed as a campus community, these values guide us as we make decisions, apply generative AI tools, and support each other in our work.

Our Generative AI Values

1. Innovation: Foster a culture of creativity and innovation around generative AI to drive advancements across all aspects of the institution. Faculty, staff, and students should be given opportunities both to develop competencies with generative AI, and to develop critical approaches to their use.
2. Integrity: Uphold the highest standards of honesty, ethics, and responsibility in all generative AI endeavors. Encourage critical thinking, diverse viewpoints, and responsible adoption and use to challenge assumptions and drive intellectual growth. Seek to balance access with the protection of intellectual property, confidentiality, and privacy. Foster conversations about what tasks are best accomplished with generative AI, and which are best performed solely by humans.
3. Excellence: Deliver an educational and employment experience that empowers individuals and drives societal progress. Ensure that generative AI adoption leads to positive and impactful interactions between the institution and society, centered on the needs of students, employees, and stakeholders. Invest in people who are leading the way on generative AI.
4. Accessibility: Reduce technological access gaps and minimize, rather than grow, the digital divide. Ensure access to high quality, safe generative AI tools for all students, faculty, and staff.
5. Sustainability: Invest in generative AI technologies that are affordable and tolerant to rapid technological change, but that also empower innovation in AI. Promote discussions of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of generative AI technologies on our world.
6. Engaged leadership: Boise State leads the Treasure Valley and the region in generative AI competencies and critical approaches to generative AI and technology. This leadership will be most effective if based on active participation from students, faculty, staff, and the community–including other Idaho colleges and universities–in the institution’s activities.

Our Generative AI Strategic Plan outlines our vision and how GenAI interacts with the broader goals of the university.