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All AI tools, whether free or paid, must be reviewed and approved by the UB Software Review team.","sourceSnapshotHash":"f1ae0b638440bf323af68f5ddcd05e32543535c8ba5010951f3218f2801fa3d1","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. \"University at Buffalo SUNY policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/university-at-buffalo-suny"}}