This school year, the Academic Leadership Team decided to reinforce the honor code in response to the increasing usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

For example, during the second quarter of the school year, the school implemented new policies such as doing all work on a single document and banning phones in the school hallways during finals week.

The meetings on Artificial Intelligence began in the spring semester of 2023. Later on in the year, the team presented findings about the best practices regarding AI.

In hopes of keeping up with the growing usage of AI, Christopher Fern, the Dean of Academics, has taken the responsibility of the honor code.

He followed up with the usage of

AI and stated, “As time has gone on, I have had an increasingly negative imposition of AI…” He added, “additionally, since AI generates so much content, it wastes numerous people’s time when they present work as their own to be evaluated but wasn’t ever written or created by themselves.”

Since the first meeting, faculty have met every semester to discuss AI’s impact and ethical usage, and the Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence policy is updated annually.

Students also have concerns about Artificial Intelligence, including those in the academic
STEM fields.

Amelie De Juan ’26, president of the Math Club, expressed, “[Because of AI] I worry that I may encounter strangers and peers who lack a basic understanding of concepts, society, and more.”

Students in literature also agree with the negative effects of Artificial Intelligence.

Anabelle Hazard ’27, Editor of The Grail literary magazine, said, “Anything that detracts from the raw human experience of learning is only a hindrance to ourselves.”

Artificial Intelligence usage finds new ways to impact society, specifically that affect student performance.

With Riordan’s Academic Leadership Team carefully working on the honor code and AI usage, faculty hopes to encourage students to strengthen students’ abilities to think and work for themselves.