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This decision comes with the obligation to accurately and clearly communicate AI policies to students enrolled in WSU courses across all campuses.","sourceSnapshotHash":"98a2cb2b53098d454923b139003b69b8cf867853a9be4d30d9868955f7ccb301","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"claim-wsu-ai-attribution-classroom-assessments","sourceUrl":"https://provost.wsu.edu/policies/artificial_intelligence/provost-expectations-for-ai-use-in-courses/","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"An expectation for our students is that there is accurate and transparent attribution of AI use in their classroom assessments.","sourceSnapshotHash":"98a2cb2b53098d454923b139003b69b8cf867853a9be4d30d9868955f7ccb301","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"}]},{"key":"research_guidance","label":"Research guidance","status":"restricted","normalizedValue":"researchers_generally_should_not_input_sensitive_data_into_external_gai_tools","summary":"Washington State University has 2 source-backed public claims for research guidance; deterministic analysis status: restricted.","explanation":"Whether public guidance addresses research use, publication ethics, research data, grants, or human-subjects compliance. 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":["claim-wsu-research-sensitive-data","claim-wsu-research-gai-attribution"],"evidenceSourceUrls":["https://research.wsu.edu/guidelines-policies/generative-ai"],"sourceLanguages":["en"],"reviewState":"machine_candidate","confidence":0.791,"evidenceCount":2,"sourceCount":1,"basis":[{"claimId":"claim-wsu-research-sensitive-data","sourceUrl":"https://research.wsu.edu/guidelines-policies/generative-ai","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Third-party software, tools, or information storage systems must comply with WSU data security policies. Because GAI tools are unlikely to meet these requirements, researchers should generally not input sensitive data into externally sourced GAI tools.","sourceSnapshotHash":"d706f98fc422efeada4448ad5e5ff5fe47878ec472fa5668d7d4f49f47038ae5","reviewState":"agent_reviewed"},{"claimId":"claim-wsu-research-gai-attribution","sourceUrl":"https://research.wsu.edu/guidelines-policies/generative-ai","sourceLanguage":"en","evidenceSnippet":"Uphold standards of academic integrity by clearly attributing the use of GAI tools in research outputs and publications.","sourceSnapshotHash":"d706f98fc422efeada4448ad5e5ff5fe47878ec472fa5668d7d4f49f47038ae5","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. \"Washington State University policy analysis profile.\" Version v1. https://eduaipolicy.org/universities/washington-state-university"}}