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Taking primary responsibility for verifying all AI-generated content, data, and references. Disclosing use transparently in proposals, manuscripts, and publications.","sourceSnapshotHash":"c3e96519681157945855587aa1d3cad5b2db438608b2d2aa8668d4944d237ded","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"security_procurement","label":"Security and procurement","status":"blocked","normalizedValue":"ai_studio_level_1_2_allowed_level_3_4_prohibited","summary":"Pennsylvania State University has 1 source-backed public claim for security and procurement; deterministic analysis status: blocked.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses security review, procurement, vendor approval, risk assessment, authentication, SSO, or licensing. This blocked status was derived from claim type, normalized value, and keyword rules over 1 supporting public claim. Review the basis array before reusing this as a policy conclusion.","evidenceClaimIds":["claim-psu-ai-studio-data-levels"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://ai.psu.edu/ai-services/ai-studio"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.782,"evidenceCount":1,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"claim-psu-ai-studio-data-levels","sourceUrl":"https://ai.psu.edu/ai-services/ai-studio","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Level 1 (Low) and Level 2 (Moderate) data may be entered into AI Studio. Users must not enter Level 3 (High) or Level 4 (Restricted) data into AI Studio.","sourceSnapshotHash":"831d5e5df7408844eae56164aa9761354810982017331b23d8e10c190db66c55","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]}],"limitations":["Policy analysis profiles are deterministic summaries of public tracker claims and are not final policy conclusions.","Policy Coverage Score measures breadth of public, source-backed coverage; it is not a policy quality score, strictness score, legal adequacy score, safety score, or institutional compliance score.","This tracker is not legal advice, not academic integrity advice, and not an official university statement unless a linked source is the university's own official page."],"suggestedCitation":"University AI Policy Tracker. \"Pennsylvania State University policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/pennsylvania-state-university"}}