Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool for postgraduate students, offering new ways to analyze data, explore ideas, and work more efficiently. Like any tool, however, it comes with limitations you should understand before you can use it effectively and responsibly.

• Check accuracy: AI-generated text, code, or analysis may contain mistakes or misleading information.
• Be aware of bias: Outputs can reflect hidden biases in the data the AI was trained on.
• Protect your scientific and academic integrity: Over-reliance risks undermining your own critical thinking and academic credibility.
• Maintain originality: AI cannot replace your insight, creativity, and judgement as a researcher. This is particularly true for postgraduate students, such as those at KAUST, who are pursuing original research.
• Use with oversight: Treat AI as a supporting tool, not an authority; always verify, cross-check, and ensure final work is your own.

In terms of your academic writing, AI is a very useful tool for drafting, checking and proofreading your work but:

You should always write your own version of the text first!

• AI should not be used to generate ideas and directly develop your written text (as a first author).
• Be mindful of the academic style, organization and cohesion in any AI-revised text.