In January 2026, the King’s College London Student Union (KCLSU) published its AI Manifesto.
Throughout the first semester of this academic year (2025/26), students at King’s College London (KCL) attended workshops to talk about their views on artificial intelligence (AI).
The Vice President (Postgraduate) of the KCLSU, Sheeba Naaz, made it her mission to put together a manifesto to outline how AI should be used by students at KCL.
Sheeba partnered with TASK Student Partners (Transforming Assessment for Students at King’s) to create an AI Taskforce.
The five key principles of the resulting manifesto reflect the values which students spoke about most at their workshops.
- Integrity – students and staff alike will seek to prioritise “deep learning” and “skill development”; AI is a tool, not a replacement
- Adaptability – teaching methods and policies must adapt to remain effective and teach students relevant skills for their futures
- Clarity – students must “be transparent about AI assistance” and staff must give “specific guidelines on acceptable AI use”
- Ethics – there must be a “commitment to fairness, privacy, intellectual property, sustainability, and the mitigation of social and algorithmic bias”
- Collaboration – staff and students must work together when implementing AI use
The hope is that the resulting manifesto will help prioritise and clarify issues surrounding AI use at KCL.
Roar reported in Janurary that 10 students had been expelled for AI misuse since 2022, with 60% of students reporting using AI to summarise readings and 57% admitting to using AI to help generate ideas for assessemnets.
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For King’s guidance on permissible use of AI, visit here.
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