AI Policy

At The Language Arts Studio, our core service is coaching learners in the field of language arts. While most of the learners call us ‘teachers,’ we also see ourselves as coaches, facilitators, and mentors. In these roles, our relationship with each individual learner is absolutely key. 

We do not see learners as a line item or an abstract mind. We see them as humans who are working on their creativity, organisation, style, voice, tone, richness of language, and power in their writing. We see them as critics, analysts, collaborators, and readers. They are imperfect and still developing, but in each one, there are seeds of potential. The very essence of human language artists. 

Because of all of this, The Language Arts Studio believes that it is in the best interests of all our teachers and learners to stay away from the use of AI and toil along without it. We are humans learning from humans. 

This is not to say that we do not see many wonderful applications of AI in other fields, as well as in university education. We do not feel that using AI serves our teachers and young learners in a way that is faithful to our mission. We pledge that teachers will not use AI in planning, writing curriculum, responding in writing to parents or students, and certainly not during contact hours with learners during sessions. We also do not allow our students to use AI in their work, both during sessions as well as in the completion of homework. 

This aligns with the policies of the Royal Commonwealth Society in their annual Queen’s Commonwealth Writing Competition and the Wilbur Niso Smith Foundation in their Author of Tomorrow adventure writing competition. 

And this bit of writing, this AI policy, was written without the use of ChatGPT or any other AI tool. All writing that is, and will be, produced at the Language Arts Studio will be 100% human.