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Petition addressed to: Austin Community College Students, Alumni, Staff, and Faculty
We, the signers of this petition, call for the elimination of AI (including LLMs and generative forms of AI) in the educational space at Austin Community College.
During the Fall 2026 General Assembly, Austin Community College, despite having multiple departments supporting the arts, including the Game Design, Animation, Motion Graphics (GDAMG), Visual Communications, and Fine Arts departments, decided to use generative AI to create videos used for the keynote presentation.
The videos are publicly accessible here:
Opening Animation
Keynote Video
Closing Video
AI TRUST Framework for Austin Community College: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IRJaqrwGo
Instead of employing students and alumni that have gone through the college, they used generative AI, which has negative impacts on the environment, including the contribution to increasing water scarcity and the carbon footprint.
More information about the General Assembly can be found here: https://infohub.austincc.edu/general-assembly/
Reason
Besides the environmental impacts of AI, the most concerning and FERPA-violating piece of information can be found in the AI TRUST Framework for Austin Community College at the timestamp, 3:54. During that section of the video, the AI generated character can be seen uploading a student's transcript to an LLM for the determination of graduation eligibility.
By uploading a student's transcript for the use of an external company, ACC is encouraging the sharing of student information and grades. This is a violation of the students' privacy, according to the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act: https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/ferpa
Besides the privacy violations, the use of AI is in contradiction to the spirit of education, creativity, and the arts. Instead of offering students the chance to create the animation that they've trained for at ACC, shortcuts were taken. This is in direct antithesis of ACC's student-centered mindset. Generative AI is built on stolen intellectual property. If it's easier to simply prompt a platform to generate "art", this begs the question: "Why are we training in the arts here at ACC at all?"
Please help defend human artists by signing our petition down below.
Thank you so much for your support, Lily Nguyen, Austin
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Petition details
Petition started:
28 Sep 2026
Collection ends:
03/30/2027
Region:
Austin
Topic:
Education
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I do not want a soulless future and education and I don't want anyone else to have that as well.