Lauren Bialystok is an Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
The rise of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has unsettled long-standing norms around academic authorship and assessment. Both students and faculty are grappling with new questions: Can AI-assisted work still be considered original? How should institutions evaluate writing produced with technological support? Increasingly, transparency—rather than originality—is emerging as the ethical standard, with AI declaration forms becoming part of assignment and publication processes.
On October 9, 2025, the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) will host Professor Lauren Bialystok for a timely talk that interrogates these shifting standards. In her presentation, Transparency Is the New Originality, Professor Bialystok argues that while disclosure is often treated as a sufficient safeguard, transparency alone cannot resolve the ethical challenges that generative AI poses for both student assessment and scholarly publishing.
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Lauren Bialystok is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and a member of the Advisory Board to the Centre for Ethics. Her research spans topics in ethics, education, and identity; she has published on authenticity, social justice education, open-mindedness, sex education, and high school philosophy. She is co-author (with Lisa Andersen) of Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education (Chicago, 2022) and co-editor (with Bruce Maxwell) of the Educational Foundations series (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her current project is investigating the impact of AI on assessment in the humanities.
This event offers educators, researchers, and students an important opportunity to reflect critically on the role of AI in academic writing and the responsibilities that accompany its use.
