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Worryingly, these systems often produce an unacceptably high rate of false positives.\nIn the future, with the integration of AI writing tools into platforms like Microsoft Word and Google Workplace, it is anticipated that much of our writing will include AI-generated elements. This will be similar to how we currently benefit from algorithm-driven spell checkers and grammar tools. Considering these factors, the use of text-based AI detectors is not recommended.","sourceSnapshotHash":"6e94d9c097dafc48396c33236933ec4fa34898ef5cf4cb3409b26649533a7de3","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"cl-qub-copilot-staff","sourceUrl":"https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/digitallearning/ai/understanding-ai/using-ai/","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Microsoft Copilot Chat is available for use by Queens University Faculty and staff. To use Copilot, please log in using your @qub.ac.uk email address. 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You need to consider whether you have permission to submit the information that you do.","sourceSnapshotHash":"e2098a5912ecd8d097496b81d07cb37cc74ac6362b4ea739d5b05ef8b5fae1da","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"cl-qub-public-data-only-tools","sourceUrl":"https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/digitallearning/ai/understanding-ai/using-ai/","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Users are advised to use Artificial Intelligence tools responsibly. It is important to emphasise that the AI tools featured on these pages are intended solely for exploration, and exclusively with publicly available data.","sourceSnapshotHash":"6b49d48670811b2acebe349388424b117f2afd6269024446d7b20bcd157ee46e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"teaching_guidance","label":"Teaching guidance","status":"recommended","normalizedValue":"RAISE principles frame staff and student AI guidance","summary":"Queen's University Belfast has 3 source-backed public claims for teaching guidance; deterministic analysis status: recommended.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses instructors, teaching, classroom policy, assessment design, or syllabus language. This recommended status was derived from claim type, normalized value, and keyword rules over 3 supporting public claims. 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This includes recommendations on how to get started as well as more specific guidance on the use of AI, for example within assessment.\nOur guidance is based on the following principles:\nR\nesponsible use,\nA\nI best practice,\nI\nntegrity,\nS\nupport and\nE\nquitable Access – collectively RAISE.","sourceSnapshotHash":"083dd2d11912adfc1171e6070f6198f21c88f905975ea2d3ed94fc40093e6e0a","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"cl-qub-copilot-staff","sourceUrl":"https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/digitallearning/ai/understanding-ai/using-ai/","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Microsoft Copilot Chat is available for use by Queens University Faculty and staff. To use Copilot, please log in using your @qub.ac.uk email address. 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Ethics applications must include clear details about how AI will be used in data collection, analysis, or management, and how participants’ data privacy will be protected.","sourceSnapshotHash":"2d6465b720d21934e6ad2c70d055eb5bb7dd6498217210b655c42fa12de68b9c","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"cl-qub-research-integrity-transparent-use","sourceUrl":"https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Governance-ethics-and-integrity/Research-integrity/ArtificialIntelligence/","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Whilst work is ongoing within the University to develop guidance on its use, the fundamental principle is NOT to present any responses from AI as if they were your own, be clear, open and transparent in your use.","sourceSnapshotHash":"bc7e6e5aa69900e9d55fb4c2f90ccf71b4e8d4a421f7e474570127a867fe532c","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"security_procurement","label":"Security and procurement","status":"not_mentioned","summary":"No source-backed public claim about AI security review or procurement is present in this profile.","explanation":"This is an absence-of-evidence marker for the current tracker profile, not proof that no such policy exists.","evidenceClaimIds":[],"evidenceSourceUrls":[],"sourceLanguages":[],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0,"evidenceCount":0,"sourceCount":0,"notMentionedReason":"The current public tracker record does not contain claim evidence about security review, procurement, vendor approval, risk assessment, authentication, SSO, or enterprise licensing.","basis":[]}],"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. \"Queen's University Belfast policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/queens-university-belfast"}}