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Artificial intelligence has moved from talk to action at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. This summer, Kelley rolled out the Kelley AI Playbook, a working guide that shows faculty how to weave generative AI into teaching, grading, research, and service — and how to do it responsibly. The school revised the playbook in October.
Dean Patrick Hopkins, who has made “future-proofing faculty” a central priority of his tenure, says the Playbook is about clarity and transparency in a rapidly changing environment.
“This is instruction-heavy because that’s the front line,” Hopkins tells Poets&Quants. “But really it’s about transparency — how do you go about ethically utilizing AI in the educational mission? We wanted to make it public so that other universities could use it too.”
ETHICS AND TRANSPARENCY — NOT HYPE
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Kelley Dean Patrick Hopkins on the school’s AI Playbook: “It’s a Kelley product, but we put it out there for everyone. We want to help our colleagues at other schools too”
The Playbook is framed around Kelley’s shared values, making the case that faculty must not only teach with AI but also model ethical and discerning use of it. It calls for openness about when AI is used in course design or grading, insists that adoption should serve clear instructional purposes rather than trendy tool-chasing, and emphasizes that technology can support but never substitute for faculty expertise.
Faculty are encouraged to experiment, to share successes and failures candidly, and to demonstrate discernment by showing students when to use AI and when to leave it aside.
Underlying the Playbook is a simple premise: Kelley students will graduate into workplaces where AI is assumed. “Whether or not we use AI personally, we must recognize that our students will be expected to use it in the workplace,” the guide states. Faculty, then, have a responsibility to help them use it wisely, ethically, and effectively.
TRAINING PROFESSORS TO PREPARE STUDENTS
Hopkins frames the Playbook as another step in future-proofing students by first future-proofing faculty. “AI is really table stakes now,” he says. “But business is still a social endeavor. The skills that matter — teaming, communications, problem solving, ethical judgment — aren’t going away. Our job is to embed AI across everything we do, while doubling down on those human skills.”
The Playbook was itself created with the assistance of multiple AI tools, a fact disclosed deliberately to reinforce Kelley’s commitment to openness. Already, Hopkins says, it has been adopted by other units within Indiana University and has attracted attention from colleagues at peer institutions. “It’s a Kelley product, but we put it out there for everyone. We want to help our colleagues at other schools too,” he says.
See the Indiana Kelley AI Playbook here. And see other AI strategy playbooks:
Source: Stephanie Hills
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