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Within this statement, AI includes both generative and assistive AI technologies in the completion of a wide range of teaching and learning, research, and administrative tasks.","sourceSnapshotHash":"5baa9bee0db9ad812fd592e9dd9c2ab864c9de3a471407bf7979c1fde8047e13","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"claim-ufs-ai-literacy-support-2025","sourceUrl":"https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/default-source/2026-web-documents/ufs-ai-position-statement_2025.pdf?sfvrsn=630ff820_1","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"AI literacy and skills should be developed as part of the digital competencies across all levels within the UFS. Students, staff, and stakeholders should be supported to use AI tools effectively and responsibly.","sourceSnapshotHash":"5baa9bee0db9ad812fd592e9dd9c2ab864c9de3a471407bf7979c1fde8047e13","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"research_guidance","label":"Research guidance","status":"recommended","normalizedValue":"senate_approved_ai_position_statement_scope","summary":"University of the Free State has 1 source-backed public claim for research guidance; deterministic analysis status: recommended.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses research use, publication ethics, research data, grants, or human-subjects compliance. This recommended 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-ufs-ai-position-scope-2025"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/default-source/2026-web-documents/ufs-ai-position-statement_2025.pdf?sfvrsn=630ff820_1"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.799,"evidenceCount":1,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"claim-ufs-ai-position-scope-2025","sourceUrl":"https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/default-source/2026-web-documents/ufs-ai-position-statement_2025.pdf?sfvrsn=630ff820_1","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Approved at Senate 27 May 2025. Within this statement, AI includes both generative and assistive AI technologies in the completion of a wide range of teaching and learning, research, and administrative tasks.","sourceSnapshotHash":"5baa9bee0db9ad812fd592e9dd9c2ab864c9de3a471407bf7979c1fde8047e13","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. \"University of the Free State policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/university-of-the-free-state"}}