• Output Responsibility

Key Point

If you use AI, you are fully responsible for checking that its output is accurate, reliable, and ethical — always verify before using or sharing.

Examples

Course Instructors

✅ Review AI-generated summaries, slides, or teaching materials before sharing.
✅ Monitor how students use AI in their coursework to ensure compliance.
❌ Don’t assume AI-generated materials are accurate without fact-checking.
❌ Don’t distribute unchecked AI content to students.

Students

✅ Cross-check all facts, references, and statistics generated by AI before including them in your coursework.

✅ Use AI for drafting ideas but always verify with trusted sources.

❌ Don’t copy AI-generated references or content without confirming they are real and correct.

❌ Don’t submit AI text as fact without your own critical review.

Researchers

✅ Review all AI-assisted analyses or text to ensure scholarly accuracy and ethical standards.

✅ Double-check AI-generated code; test it thoroughly before publication.

✅ Keep a clear record of how you used AI and how you verified its outputs

❌ Don’t publish AI-generated data or results without validation.

❌ Don’t present AI summaries or code as final research output without independent checks.

Excerpt from the Official Guidelines

The University of Cyprus faculty, students and researchers who use AI tools are solely responsible for confirming the accuracy, reliability, and ethical compliance of the outputs they generate. This includes a duty to critically cross-check AI-generated content against original sources. This responsibility extends to AI tools or systems developed, used, distributed, or imported by the University of Cyprus, which must adhere to principles such as human agency and oversight, technical robustness, privacy and data governance, transparency, fairness, and accountability.

Since AI tools generate responses based on existing online material without any verification of their accuracy and timeliness against valid scientific information sources, users must independently assess and verify the accuracy and reliability before using, forwarding or referencing this output for any academic reason.

Last Updated on 31 July, 2025