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11 # The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) AI policy diff
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4+ai_tool_treatment: LSE requires departments or course convenors to classify authorised generative AI use in assessment as no authorised use, limited authorised use, or full authorised use, and to communicate the position to students.
5+Evidence (en, b9ab03932e41): In advance of the start of the academic year, all academic departments must agree department-wide or course-level positions on the authorised use of generative AI in assessment within one of the following positions: Position 1: No authorised use of generative AI in assessment. Position 2: Limited authorised use of generative AI in assessment. Position 3: Full authorised use of generative AI in assessment.
6+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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9+academic_integrity: For 2025/26, LSE requested departments to add assessment safeguards, including observed assessment methods, to help assure degree integrity and prevent unfair competitive advantage from generative AI.
10+Evidence (en, 19740e21dc7d): For 2025/26 we request that departments introduce additional safeguards to strengthen the three-position framework agreed at Education Committee in May 2024 (prohibition; limited; and full use of GenAI). This involves combining observed assessment with thoughtful integration of generative AI technologies, tailored appropriately to each discipline at the programme or course level.
11+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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14+ai_tool_treatment: LSE states that making generative AI tools available does not endorse unrestricted use, and users should check their specific course, programme, or department policy.
15+Evidence (en, 238a4d20ef5a): By making generative AI tools available, LSE is not endorsing the unrestricted use of generative AI tools by students and staff. You should always check your specific course and/or department policy on the use of generative AI tools.
16+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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19+ai_tool_treatment: LSE lists Claude for Education as available to academic staff and students and Copilot with Commercial Data Protection as available to all staff and students.
20+Evidence (en, 238a4d20ef5a): Current tools available to LSE staff and students: Claude for Education: available to academic staff and students. Copilot (Copilot with Commercial Data Protection): available to all staff and students.
21+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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24+research: LSE research guidance applies to LSE staff and students undertaking research and frames generative AI as a supportive tool while keeping researchers accountable for outputs.
25+Evidence (en, 61a62e350898): This guidance applies to all LSE staff and students undertaking research. Generative AI refers to AI systems that create new content, predominantly text but also images, audio and video, based on users’ natural language prompts. It should be thought of as a supportive tool or assistant, with researchers always in the driver’s seat and accountable for what they produce.
26+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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29+privacy: LSE research guidance tells researchers not to share personal, sensitive, or confidential data with third-party AI tools unless the tools meet LSE privacy and security standards, and it strongly encourages Microsoft Copilot for privacy and security.
30+Evidence (en, 61a62e350898): Researchers should not share personal, sensitive, or confidential data with 3rd party tools that do not provide assurances of privacy and security that are satisfactory to LSE standards. Microsoft Copilot is available for staff and student use in the LSE, supported centrally, and is fully secure and private when logged in with an LSE email in the Edge browser.
31+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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34+privacy: LSE legal and regulatory guidance tells users not to put personal data, confidential or commercially sensitive data, or certain copyrighted content into external AI tools.
35+Evidence (en, 21360bfa51bb): Don’t put personal data in an AI tool that is external to LSE. If it will swallow the personal data for further processing that LSE cannot control, you can’t use the AI tool. Don’t upload in-copyright content where you do not have the copyright holder’s permission and where the AI tool is known to use inputs as training data. Don’t put confidential or commercially sensitive data in an AI tool that is external to LSE.
36+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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1738 This claim was newly extracted or newly promoted in the tracker release. It is not necessarily newly published by the university.
39+ai_tool_treatment: LSE Claude for Education guidance says use is optional, student and staff data will not be used to train Anthropic models, and personal, operational, or confidential data must not be shared through Claude.
40+Evidence (en, 6c73b0ef91ea): Anthropic have guaranteed that LSE student and staff data will not be used to train their models. Use of Claude for Education is completely optional – there is no obligation to sign up. Personal, operational, or confidential data must not be shared via Claude, and Claude must not be integrated into operational workflows or processes.
41+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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44+Source https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/digital-skills-lab/Gen-AI snapshot 238a4d20ef5aff452f19bc3c5e6ba284a6e3684a9b31ba59591a66ec07bcb9c1
45+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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48+Source https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Eden-Centre/Artificial-Intelligence-Education-and-Assessment/Anthropics-Claude-for-Education snapshot 6c73b0ef91eae1879b6718b2bc2f1de26248f05e138b4dac6d50e29a83c0136e
49+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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52+Source https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Eden-Centre/Artificial-Intelligence-Education-and-Assessment/School-position-on-generative-AI snapshot b9ab03932e412e7f898119c7d6ea3a0dce2569b2c771950867c49e448de66f2d
53+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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2555 An official source attribution was added to the tracker record.
56+Source https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/divisions/Eden-Centre/Assets-EC/Documents/AI-guidelines-update-June-2025/LSE-Position-on-Generative-AI-in-Education-2025-26-FINAL.pdf snapshot 19740e21dc7d3f030b14aa2028d3f2d6992743694d847afe970c918484cc90e4
57+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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2759 An official source attribution was added to the tracker record.
60+Source https://info.lse.ac.uk/staff/services/Policies-and-procedures/Assets/Documents/aiLegRegGui.pdf snapshot 21360bfa51bbfcbe544e969014dfdb524c6ea6ef309aae0350f25d069b906e71
61+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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64+Source https://www.lse.ac.uk/DSI/Assets/documents/LSE-Guidance-on-the-use-of-Generative-AI-for-research.pdf snapshot 61a62e350898b61414d3fe9570861817e1fdb32409f5852701cfc326c27a1d43
65+Tracker checked at: 2026-05-12T14:03:47.000Z
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