This page helps University colleagues and students choose an appropriate GenAI tool for a particular task. Availability, licences, account configuration, School approval and course rules may vary. For students, always check your course specific guidance and use the service and data-handling route authorised for your situation.

Safe use applies to every tool

Keep a human in the loop: GenAI can be inaccurate, biased, incomplete or misleading, so check factual claims, dates, calculations, code, quotations, citations and source context before you use, share or act on an output. Treat generated material as a draft or a lead, not as authoritative advice or a substitute for academic, professional, ethical or research judgement.

Use only information you are entitled and authorised to share. Do not assume a service is approved for every data classification: protect confidentiality, personal and special-category data, identifiable staff/student/patient/clinical or research-participant data, embargoed material, and third-party copyrighted content. Follow applicable data-protection, ethics, licence, consent, retention and University policies. Check the account and service settings before uploading material.

Maintain academic integrity. Course and assessment rules determine whether GenAI use is permitted. Do not present generated text, code, reasoning, images or other output as your own work. Acknowledge permitted use where required, read and verify any sources yourself, and retain proportionate prompt/output provenance where publication, funder, publisher or local rules require it.