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King's College London

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Change summary

Current public record freshness and review state.

King's College London currently has 13 source-backed claim records and 7 official source attributions. Latest tracked changed date: Jul 19, 2026. Latest tracker diff: 0 comparable policy-text changes, 1 newly extracted claims, 1 source snapshot changes.

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Combined release diff

Unified tracker diff generated from all public release snapshots for this university.

King's College London combined release diff

Comparing public-release-20260714-002 to public-release-20260715-005.

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11 # King's College London AI policy diff
22 ## Newly extracted tracker claim
33 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
4+ai_tool_treatment: Microsoft Copilot is listed for King's College London in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
5+Evidence (en, 47d7504fdaff): King's says all staff and students have access to text and image generation via Microsoft Copilot when they log into their KCL Microsoft account. Its Enterprise license provides commercial data protection.
6+Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z
47 ## Source snapshot hash changed
58 The same source URL has a different snapshot hash. This may reflect policy text, page layout, navigation, or metadata changes; it is not by itself a policy change.
6-Source https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/ai-guidance/context-definitions snapshot e83b1023c70fd9113f0fafdecb9f0ee84991617be4a6e17182b9fdf753d682f0
7-Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z
9+Source https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/ai-guidance/context-definitions snapshot 47d7504fdaff0f03786f8a4b4548933dc710ed084b76ac1ccea87ecf3d3a9932
10+Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z

Release history

1 public release diff

public-release-20260715-005

Compared with public-release-20260714-002.

Policy text0Newly extracted1Source snapshots1Source text0

King's College London public-release-20260715-005 diff

Comparing public-release-20260714-002 to public-release-20260715-005.

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11 # King's College London AI policy diff
22 ## Newly extracted tracker claim
33 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
4+ai_tool_treatment: Microsoft Copilot is listed for King's College London in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.
5+Evidence (en, 47d7504fdaff): King's says all staff and students have access to text and image generation via Microsoft Copilot when they log into their KCL Microsoft account. Its Enterprise license provides commercial data protection.
6+Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z
47 ## Source snapshot hash changed
58 The same source URL has a different snapshot hash. This may reflect policy text, page layout, navigation, or metadata changes; it is not by itself a policy change.
6-Source https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/ai-guidance/context-definitions snapshot e83b1023c70fd9113f0fafdecb9f0ee84991617be4a6e17182b9fdf753d682f0
7-Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z
9+Source https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strategy/learning-and-teaching/ai-guidance/context-definitions snapshot 47d7504fdaff0f03786f8a4b4548933dc710ed084b76ac1ccea87ecf3d3a9932
10+Tracker checked at: 2026-07-15T20:37:43.896Z

Claim changes

13 claim records

ai_tool_treatment

Microsoft Copilot is listed for King's College London in an official university AI tools source. Derived availability: allowed. Derived endorsement type: institutionally licensed or procured.

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ai_tool_treatment

King's College London does not ban the use of generative AI tools by students.

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academic_integrity

At King's College London, inappropriate use of generative AI without attribution is considered academic misconduct and can result in penalties ranging from formal warnings to expulsion.

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academic_integrity

King's College London does not require students to reference generative AI as an authoritative source in the reference list, but does require explicit acknowledgement of AI tool use in coursework.

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academic_integrity

At King's College London, submitting AI-generated text as one's own without written departmental permission is considered misconduct under third-party involvement or text manipulation offences.

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academic_integrity

King's College London has disabled the AI detection feature in Turnitin due to concerns about reliability and false positives.

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teaching

King's College London supports considered use of generative AI and is open to evolving teaching, assessment and feedback practices according to need and disciplinary differences.

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ai_tool_treatment

Microsoft Copilot is available to all King's College London students via their KCL Microsoft account and comes with commercial data protection under the university's enterprise license.

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teaching

King's College London subscribes to the Russell Group's five principles on generative AI in education, including supporting AI literacy, adapting teaching and assessment, and ensuring academic integrity.

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research

King's College London permits doctoral students to use generative AI tools in their thesis writing processes for assistive purposes such as clarifying writing, provided use is declared and consistent with guidance.

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research

King's College London doctoral examiners must not upload any part of a student's thesis into a generative AI tool or use external AI detection software when assessing the thesis.

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teaching

King's College London defines four broad levels of acceptable AI use in assessments: minimal, limited/selective, open, and embedded, with programme and module leaders adjusting to assessment specifics.

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ai_tool_treatment

Microsoft Copilot is the primary institutional generative AI tool available to all King's College London students and staff via KCL Microsoft login credentials.

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Source snapshots

7 source attributions