Indiana Kelley Has Published An ‘AI Playbook’ — And Shared It With The World

Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business offers 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.

“This is instruction-heavy because that’s the front line,” according to Dean Patrick Hopkins. “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.”

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.

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.