WHEREAS, In July 2024, the Chancellor's Office for the California Community College system presented to the Board of Governors on “Generative AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning” and described the dedication to meeting ethical standards of trustworthiness and unbiased standards [1];
WHEREAS, AI detection software was introduced with the intention of detecting AI with a false positive rate of less than 1%; and AI software programs such as Turnitin, expressing these tools to not be 100% reliable leaving the final interpretation to the faculty member [3];
WHEREAS, College institutions all over the country are banning, opting out, or disabling the use of AI detection due to the higher false positive rate being recognized in student work, such as; the University of California Los Angeles, University of California Berkeley, Yale, Boston University, and so on [2]; and
WHEREAS, Nearly 10% of California Community College attendees are non-native English speakers, and 60% or higher AI false detections are attributed to this cohort (or demographic), and at least one detector is present 97% of the time; Now, therefore, be it,
RESOLVED, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges collaborate with the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to establish guidelines for the usage of AI detection softwares; such as Turnitin to ensure equity for all students.
Citations:
[2] https://www.pleasedu.org/resources/schools-that-banned-ai-detectors
[3]https://www.turnitin.com/blog/understanding-false-positives-within-our-ai-writing-detection-capabilities
[4]https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detectors-biased-against-non-native-english-writers
[5]https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/Digital-Innovation-and-Infrastructure/research-data-analytics/data-snapshot/student-demographics