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In other cases, you may be asked to complete a declaration statement that describes how you have used generative AI.","sourceSnapshotHash":"92bf7b3a10035a5b5aee80e011e9ac87d4b9bac923d9c7dcc486b6d034798625","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"research_guidance","label":"Research guidance","status":"not_mentioned","summary":"No source-backed public claim about research AI use 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 research use, publication ethics, research data, grants, or human-subjects compliance.","basis":[]},{"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. \"University of Southampton policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/university-of-southampton"}}