AI Policy

Our Approach to AI at BUA

Artificial intelligence is now a permanent reality of our world. At BUA, we recognize both the opportunities and the challenges AI presents. On the one hand, it offers new tools for creativity, efficiency, and discovery; on the other, it raises important questions about integrity, equity, privacy, and the future of human work.

Our response is grounded in our core values of inquiry, knowledge, independence, belonging, and joy. We remain committed to teaching students how to think for themselves, cultivate intellectual independence, and form judgments rooted in critical reasoning—capacities that no technology can replace. At the same time, we prepare them to encounter AI mindfully and ethically, equipping them with the tools to decide if, when, and how they wish to use it.

To this end, BUA has launched a series of initiatives designed to integrate AI into our community in thoughtful and transparent ways:

• An AI Working Group that studies and shapes school policy.
• Faculty participation in the New England AI Collaborative, where schools share best practices.
• Engagement with Boston University’s AIDA initiative to learn from cutting-edge research.
• A faculty and staff summer read devoted to AI in education.
• Classroom experiments with AI tools, designed to explore their potential for learning.
• A newly implemented “stoplight” policy that provides students with clear, simple guidelines for when AI use is encouraged, restricted, or prohibited.