Institutional guidance cautions instructors about privacy (60% of institutions) while syllabi more often flag veracity of GenAI output and hindering learning¶

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q2 i? About three in five institutions caution instructors about privacy concerns with GenAI, while 34% of syllabi mention use implications including veracity of output, privacy, hindering learning, and skill development. → Amrita Ganguly 2026

Evidence¶

Amrita Ganguly 2026¶

Amrita Ganguly, Aditya Johri, Nora McDonald, Areej Ali, Umama Dewan, and Aayushi Hingle Collier. (2026). A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Course Generative AI Policies within Higher Education: Implications for Instruction in Computing Education. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12296 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.12296

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Institutional document coding of 116 institutions found privacy cautions directed at instructors; the course-level analysis found 34% (N=33) of syllabi mentioned implications including veracity of GenAI output (20%), privacy (19%), hindering learning (17%), and skill development (7%).

"About three in five institutions (N =69, 60%) caution instructors about privacy concerns with GenAI."

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