Responsible and Ethical Use of AI

Litero is committed to building ethical, transparent, and empowering AI for all users — from content creators, educators and researchers to business professionals. Integrity is always at the center of our work. We believe AI should enhance human learning, skills, and critical thinking, not replace them.

Core principles of ethical AI

Our ethical framework is built on six foundational principles that guide every aspect of our platform development and user experience. These principles reflect both industry best practices and our unwavering commitment to integrity and excellence.

1. Human Control & Authorship

Users must remain the primary authors of their work. AI serves as a collaborator and thought partner, not a replacement for critical thinking and intellectual engagement.

Discover & plan

“Give me ideas” feature helps brainstorm topics while keeping the user's critical thinking central.

Compose & draft

Outline builder provides comprehensive structural suggestions to establish your content's framework.

2. Specialization

In an AI-enabled world, the ability to evaluate, edit, and improve content becomes more valuable than generating text from scratch. We prepare users for a future where critical judgment and editorial skill are essential competencies.

How we implement this: Our AI companion, Litra, helps identify logical gaps, weak transitions, and unclear arguments — but prompts users to develop their own solutions rather than auto-fixing issues. The grammar checker explains the reasoning behind corrections, actively teaching users to recognize and resolve similar problems independently in future writing.

3. Privacy and intellectual property

The privacy of user data and intellectual property is of paramount importance. We maintain the highest standards of data security, ensuring we never use your proprietary work to train our AI models.

4. Assessment evolution

We actively prevent platform misuse while fully supporting legitimate user collaboration and content creation. Our comprehensive guardrails are designed to protect users from integrity violations.

How we implement this: We never generate complete content — instead, we support the research and learning process through guided assistance and structural suggestions, source verification, skill-building exercises, and ethical prompting guidelines.

5. Transparency advantage

Users have the right to complete transparency regarding the role of AI in their content creation process. We believe this clarity is foundational to building trust and ensures users can accurately attribute and validate their work.

How we implement this: Our platform includes built-in AI and plagiarism detectors. Additionally, we’re developing exportable authorship reports for instructors with indicators when AI assistance is being used. Users always know when they're working with AI-generated suggestions versus their own original content.

6. Intelligence augmentation

We develop AI solutions that address genuine challenges in writing and research, focusing on skill development and intelligence augmentation rather than task automation.

Community partnership

We recognize that effective AI solutions cannot be developed in isolation. Our commitment to ethical AI is strengthened through ongoing collaboration with educators, researchers, and industry stakeholders who help us understand real-world needs and rigorously validate our approach to responsible technology.

Supporting the future of learning and workspaces

The question isn't whether people will use AI — they already do. The true challenge is how to teach and encourage users to utilize it brilliantly and ethically, rather than forcing its use into the shadows. We believe the path forward lies in thoughtful integration rather than outright prohibition.

Our Responsible and Ethical Use of AI outlines our vision for how organizations, institutions, and individuals can embrace AI while maintaining intellectual integrity. This framework emphasizes that human intelligence augmented by AI represents a powerful new form of thinking, not a replacement for fundamental skill and critical engagement.

For individual users

We encourage you to use Litero as a learning and thought partner that helps you develop stronger writing and research skills. Remember, you remain fully responsible for the accuracy, reliability, and ethical integrity of your final work. Always verify AI-generated information, properly disclose AI assistance when required by your organization or institution, and focus on building capabilities that will serve you throughout your entire career.

For educators and researchers

We're here to support your strategic and pedagogical goals, not undermine them. Our tools are designed to enhance user learning and productivity while providing you with the transparency and oversight needed to maintain professional, ethical, and academic standards. We welcome feedback on how we can better serve your institutional objectives.

For organizations

We're committed to working with your existing integrity and compliance frameworks and helping develop policies that embrace AI's potential while protecting your organizational values. Our platform can be customized to align with your specific internal requirements and honor code provisions.

Our ongoing commitment

Responsible AI is a continuous journey. We regularly review and update our policies based on new research, feedback from our community partners (including educators, researchers, and professionals), and evolving best practices in AI ethics. Our commitment extends beyond mere compliance to genuinely improving intellectual outcomes and professional standards for all users.

As AI technology continues to advance, we remain dedicated to ensuring that Litero serves as a force for skill empowerment, critical thinking development, and intellectual integrity. We believe that when used thoughtfully, AI can help create more engaging, effective, and equitable creation experiences for everyone.