Safeguards in university AI policies are sparse and unevenly covered¶
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q2 i? Packages contained a mean of 2.75 of 8 possible safeguards, with privacy most visible (67%) and workload/proportionality almost absent (4%). → Kai Yao 2026
Evidence¶
Kai Yao 2026¶
Kai Yao. (2026). What Does the Credential Still Certify? Cognitive Stewardship for AI-Mediated Education. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19988 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.19988
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Safeguard-coverage coding across the 30-institution corpus, counting eight safeguard indicators. The audit found packages contained "a mean of 2.75 of 8 possible safeguards," with privacy at 67% and, per the text, workload/proportionality at 4%.
"Packages contained a mean of 2.75 of 8 possible safeguards. The most visible categories were privacy at 67%; detection caution at 47%; accessibility at 42%; appeal or due process at 33%; equity of tool access at 32%"
Discussion¶
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Safeguards in university AI policies are sparse and unevenly covered |
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Safeguards in university AI policies are sparse and unevenly covered |
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2026-10-20 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-10 |
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