QUESTION 1(a)
GS4
10 marks
Owing to paucity of time, a university professor generates a Ph.D. evaluation report using Artificial Intelligence and submits it with some modifications. Discuss this from the perspective of accountability and integrity.
WRITE IN
7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Evaluate whether AI assistance has crossed into unethical delegation of academic judgment and whether responsibility can ever be outsourced.
DiscussExplain the different sides of the issue, use evidence, and finish with a balanced view.
Demand-wise check
- 1Accountability: the professor remains answerable for accuracy, fairness and consequences≈30 words
- 2Integrity: authentic exercise of entrusted professional judgment and honest disclosure of assistance≈30 words
- 3Distinguish permissible drafting/support from outsourcing the evaluative duty itself≈30 words
- 4Safeguards: verification, disclosure, policy compliance and retained human judgment≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
Duty entrustedAI useAccountability risksIntegrity risksEthically permissible boundary
Where marks usually go
- Assuming a few manual edits restore full integrity
- Treating time pressure/efficiency as sufficient ethical justification
Value addition
- Human responsibility envelope around AI assistance
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
Verified value additions
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