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Any inputting of personal data to an external custom GPT should also be discussed with the Information Compliance team.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-transcription-bots","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"There should be no use of unapproved AI transcription bots in Teams meetings by any participants.\nIt is permissible to record meetings using the inbuilt Teams Transcription facility or Microsoft's Copilot subject to appropriate data protection considerations.\nUse of any AI transcription bot services other than the inbuilt Teams Transcription or Microsoft's Copilot should be avoided.\nMeeting options should be set by the organisers so as to prevent internal or external meeting participants from adding unapproved transcription bots.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"academic_integrity","label":"Academic integrity","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"ai_use_subject_to_academic_integrity_rules:restricted","summary":"University of Oxford has 5 source-backed public claims for academic integrity; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance connects AI use to academic integrity, misconduct, dishonesty, plagiarism, or cheating rules. 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These values need to be clearly articulated and frequently discussed.\n- Every discrete unit of assessment must be carefully designed to be fit for its specific purposes. These purposes need to be clearly articulated to students.\n- Every element of summative assessment must be accompanied by a clear explanation of what appropriate assistance is permitted and what is forbidden. Where assistance is permitted, the assignment should specify exactl...","sourceSnapshotHash":"dc16c703b23186b5ab18fa8cf527cbe294fbe4b153872be7f2a0752a6f28805c","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"approved_tools","label":"Approved tools","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"approved_or_licensed_ai_tools_identified:restricted","summary":"University of Oxford has 2 source-backed public claims for approved tools; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance identifies institutionally approved, licensed, procured, or enterprise AI tools. This restricted status was derived from claim type, normalized value, and keyword rules over 2 supporting public claims. Review the basis array before reusing this as a policy conclusion.","evidenceClaimIds":["clm-university-of-oxford-ai-approved-platforms-confidential","clm-university-of-oxford-ai-transcription-bots"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.786,"evidenceCount":2,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-approved-platforms-confidential","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"ChatGPT Edu, licensed via the AI Competency Centre, has been approved for processing of Confidential University data by the Information Security team. University data processed by ChatGPT Edu under an AI Competency Centre licence will not be used to train the AI model.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-transcription-bots","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"There should be no use of unapproved AI transcription bots in Teams meetings by any participants.\nIt is permissible to record meetings using the inbuilt Teams Transcription facility or Microsoft's Copilot subject to appropriate data protection considerations.\nUse of any AI transcription bot services other than the inbuilt Teams Transcription or Microsoft's Copilot should be avoided.\nMeeting options should be set by the organisers so as to prevent internal or external meeting participants from adding unapproved transcription bots.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"named_ai_services","label":"Named AI services","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"named_ai_services_present:restricted","summary":"University of Oxford has 2 source-backed public claims for named ai services; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance names AI services such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, Grammarly, or DeepSeek. This restricted status was derived from claim type, normalized value, and keyword rules over 2 supporting public claims. Review the basis array before reusing this as a policy conclusion.","evidenceClaimIds":["clm-university-of-oxford-ai-approved-platforms-confidential","clm-university-of-oxford-ai-transcription-bots"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.786,"evidenceCount":2,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-approved-platforms-confidential","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"ChatGPT Edu, licensed via the AI Competency Centre, has been approved for processing of Confidential University data by the Information Security team. University data processed by ChatGPT Edu under an AI Competency Centre licence will not be used to train the AI model.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-transcription-bots","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"There should be no use of unapproved AI transcription bots in Teams meetings by any participants.\nIt is permissible to record meetings using the inbuilt Teams Transcription facility or Microsoft's Copilot subject to appropriate data protection considerations.\nUse of any AI transcription bot services other than the inbuilt Teams Transcription or Microsoft's Copilot should be avoided.\nMeeting options should be set by the organisers so as to prevent internal or external meeting participants from adding unapproved transcription bots.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"teaching_guidance","label":"Teaching guidance","status":"recommended","normalizedValue":"instructor_or_teaching_guidance_available:recommended","summary":"University of Oxford has 1 source-backed public claim 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 1 supporting public claim. 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These tools only make small, local changes (for example, fixing spelling, grammar, or small pieces of code), usually affecting just a few words or tokens at a time.\nThe use of AI tools for background research, language translation, creation of bibliography indices and general subject understanding is allowed and does not have to be declared.\nUse of Gen AI for coding purposes is permitted, where the coding serves a purpose in the research but is not the substantive output of the project.","sourceSnapshotHash":"6919aedf33483a2f0ea58ff0ecf690348f7d294d0d20bba8049f6e53dea1fa06","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"security_procurement","label":"Security and procurement","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"security_procurement_or_enterprise_review_addressed:restricted","summary":"University of Oxford has 2 source-backed public claims for security and procurement; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses security review, procurement, vendor approval, risk assessment, authentication, SSO, or licensing. 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University data processed by ChatGPT Edu under an AI Competency Centre licence will not be used to train the AI model.","sourceSnapshotHash":"9bbf71bffc824494cb7a1d67b222766e18ac06caeb82946a797b485c0561c17e","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"clm-university-of-oxford-ai-security-risk-assessment","sourceUrl":"https://www.infosec.ox.ac.uk/use-generative-ai-services-such-as-chatgpt-safely","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Before any processing of Internal or Confidential information using generative AI services, the following steps must be taken to mitigate risk.\n1. As with all service providers holding or processing university information, information supplied to the tool in the form of questions or other artefacts is typically stored by the third-party service provider and is subject to the threats from cyber criminals and other malicious actors, such as hostile nation states. 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