Generative AI Hub
Welcome to the Generative AI (GenAI) Hub—your central resource for understanding and using generative AI across the university. This hub brings together institutional policy, practical guidance, and evolving resources to support responsible, ethical, and effective use of generative AI in teaching, learning, research, and administrative work. Whether you are exploring generative AI for the first time or applying it in your daily practice, this space offers clear guidance and shared best practices to help our University community use these tools responsibly and with confidence.
What is GenAI?
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is impacting many sectors of society and our daily lives; it is also transforming education, research, and work. While it creates new opportunities, it also involves a variety of risks, limitations, and ethical dilemmas. The University of Regina wants to empower faculty, students, and staff to make informed and responsible decisions about the use of GenAI in teaching, learning, research, and administrative work. To be able to make informed decisions, it is important to develop at least basic AI literacy, understand what GenAI is, how it differs from traditional Artificial Intelligence (AI), and how it works.
Key Principles
Fair
- We endeavor to ensure that GenAI content does not include or amplify biases and that it complies with our commitments to uphold human rights, accessibility, and procedural and substantive fairness.
- We engage with affected stakeholders before deployment.
Accountable
- We take responsibility for the content generated by GenAI tools and the impacts of their use.
- We establish monitoring and oversight mechanisms.
- This includes making sure generated content is accurate, legal, ethical, and compliant with the terms of use.
Secure
- We ensure that the infrastructure and tools are appropriate for the security classification of the data provided or the content produced.
- We ensure privacy, intellectual property, and personal information are protected.
- We assess and manage cybersecurity risks and robustness when deploying GenAI systems.
Transparent
- We identify content that has been produced using GenAI.
- We notify users that they are interacting with an GenAI tool.
- We are able to provide information on appropriate use, training data and models.
- We document decisions and are able to provide explanations if GenAI tools are used to support decision-making.
Ethical Considerations, Risks, and Limitations
GenAI presents significant opportunities for innovation in higher education. At the same time, its growing application to many areas also raises a range of ethical questions, including concerns about protection of intellectual property, appropriation of Indigenous and traditional local knowledges, environmental impact, equity and access, and academic integrity. GenAI also creates or amplifies some significant risks to individuals, institutions, and communities, such as privacy and data security risks and easy creation and dissemination of realistic looking/sounding deceptive content. Furthermore, GenAI has important limitations that can cause real harm when used in irresponsible ways (e.g., biased content and errors in GenAI outputs).
Resources
Access curated resources designed to help students and instructors navigate Gen AI. Explore key questions and practical guides, and insights into risks and limitations to support responsible and effective use.
We are currently developing resources for research, as well as for staff & administration use, and will release them in the near future.
Acknowledgment
This site includes adaptations from the University of Saskatchewan’s AI Lib Guide with permission and the University of Regina Centre for Teaching and Learning's (CTL) GenAI guides. The GenAI Hub Working Group responsible for the creation of this site also used MS Copilot in brainstorming and drafting some limited content through iterated dialogue with Copilot; the content drafted through the use of Copilot was reviewed and verified by the working group using their expertise.