Artificial Intelligence - Guiding Principles

Lincoln Learning recognizes the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within education and our organization. Our guiding principles outline our commitment to ethical, equitable, and effective use of AI technologies within our organization and our products and solutions.

 

Our Guiding Principles on Artificial Intelligence

  • Purpose-Driven AI with a People-Centric Approach: We believe AI should serve a clear purpose—enhancing education, improving student outcomes, and empowering educators. Our AI solutions prioritize educational goals and simply use AI as a tool to assist with our goals.
  • Responsible Innovation & Transparency: We commit to developing AI systems that are safe, secure, and reliable. Rigorous evaluations and standardized testing are essential. We provide clear explanations of how our AI works, ensuring transparency for users.
  • Privacy and Security: Data privacy is paramount; we prioritize student and user privacy and data security and implement robust data protection measures to comply with relevant regulations. We ensure that AI tools, platforms, and their generated data are secure against unauthorized access or breaches.
  • Equity, Inclusion, and Ethical Use: Our AI solutions are designed to benefit all users, regardless of background or ability. We actively minimize bias and promote accessibility in AI development, and we adhere to ethical guidelines, addressing bias, fairness, and accountability. Lincoln Learning has established internal acceptable use policies, guidelines, and has limited the tools available to employees to ensure we are being responsible with AI usage.
  • Responsible Use in the Classroom: We encourage use of AI in the classroom but only in accordance with the guidelines set forth herein. AI tools can be used as an assistive measure to brainstorm ideas, summarize texts to more easily understand, practice foreign languages, aid to studying, but should not be used to generate responses for assessments or assignments, to generate imagery if that is the goal of the assignment, answer test questions, store any kind of personal information. Further anything generated with AI should be thoroughly checked for accuracy.
  • Continuous Learning and Improvement: We recognize that understanding and using AI is an ongoing process. We are training our employees and partners to stay informed about AI advancements and adapt their practices accordingly. We encourage exploration and experimentation in controlled settings as a means of learning more about the capabilities these tools can offer to us.
  • Lincoln Learning’s Exploration: Our teams have been experimenting from the onset of the release of AI tools with different ways to support the creation of our product. In addition to finding ways to augment workflow efficiencies, we’ve made strides of generative audio and video content based solely on the learning content Lincoln Learning has built in house. Going beyond this we are exploring the methods that we can employ to help accelerate our development processes. As developments unfold, we will be sure to continue experimenting to identify sound solutions to serially raise the bar on the products that we generate.