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AI is a rapidly evolving technology. Used thoughtfully, it has the potential to support and enhance many aspects of how you work at LSE. With the right application, it can save time, provide insights and support your thinking.
This page highlights information and guidance that can support our staff community to use AI, including our policies and legal obligations, guidance tailored to different areas of work, and training to build your confidence and capability.
All staff are encouraged to engage with the guidance relevant to their role before using AI tools in a professional context. LSE's approach balances the opportunities AI presents with our responsibilities around data protection, academic integrity, and ethical use.
Use the sections below to find the guidance, policies and training most relevant to you.
If you have specific AI guidance you'd like to share here, please let us know by emailing communications.internal@lse.ac.uk, so we can update this page.
Communications guidance:
AI offers exciting opportunities for communicators by enhancing the development of images, videos, idea generation, and tone of voice, making it crucial to understand and become proficient in using these tools. Explore our guiding principles for best practices, covering accuracy, authenticity, and the AI tools available to us for content creation, as well as associated risks, considerations, and tips on maximising their potential.
Visit our guidance on AI and communications at LSE
Academic and research staff
This section brings together the policies, guidance and training relevant to AI tools such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot, alongside guidance on research integrity, data protection, and publication requirements.
Get started with the AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations course. Open to all academic and research staff and students, covering how to communicate effectively with AI systems, undertand their capabilities and limitations and apply AI use ethically. Originally developed with Anthropic and tailored specifically for LSE.
Take the Moodle course
Build your M365 Copilot foundations with our Getting Started with Microsoft 365 Copilot pathway in MyStaffDevelopment. This pathway brings together several Microsoft Learn online courses covering the basics of Copilot, prompting techniques and how to use Copilot across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. From this pathway you can also book onto live trainer-led workshops.
Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Explore further resources and support for using Generative AI in your teaching and assessment from the Eden Centre.
Supporting LSE educators to use GenAI
Explore the DSL Learning Hub for quick reference guides and short demonstration videos on using both Claude and Microsoft Copilot.
Digital Skills Lab Learning Hub for educators
Professional services staff
This section brings together the policies, training and support most relevant to your roles, covering how to use Microsoft Copilot responsibly in your day-to-day work at LSE.
Key policies:
Guidelines on the legal and regulatory use of AI
Get started with our Responsible AI course, which works through a practical model for using generative AI responsibly at LSE and gives you a strong foundation for applying these tools confidently in your day-to-day work.
Take the Responsible AI course
Build your foundations with our Getting Started with Microsoft 365 Copilot pathway in MyStaffDevelopment. This pathway brings together several Microsoft Learn online courses covering the basics of Copilot, prompting techniques and how to use Copilot across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. From this pathway you can also book onto live trainer-led workshops.
Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot pathway
Ready to go further? Our Advancing your Copilot confidence pathway in MyStaffDevelopment offers Microsoft Learn self-paced courses on more advanced features, including how to build agents.
Advancing your Copilot confidence pathway
You can also access a range of quick reference guides on using Copilot in the Digital Skills Learning Hub, including guidance on what Copilot is good at and where it's limits lie; how it works across the different Microsoft apps, an LSE-specific prompt library, an LSE-specific use-case library, how Copilot can support accessibilty and much more.
Visit the Digital Skills Lab Learning Hub for staff
Student guidance
For students, AI policy is determined by their individual departments and / or courses, as outlined by the School’s position on generative AI. These should be communicated clearly to students at the start of the year and reinforced at key points.
Students can access additional support from the Digital Skills Lab, including the AI Fluency Moodle course, guides on using a range of AI tools and the option to book onto workshops.
Digital Skills Lab support for students
More to explore
Through research, teaching, and outreach, the Data Science Institute (DSI) focuses on emerging AI technologies and their societal, economic, and political ramifications. Discover opportunities to study AI and Data Science at LSE, including our Ethics of AI online masterclass – as well as research groups and a huge array of events, podcasts, and blogs on generative AI.
DSI's AI at LSE
Take a look at highlights covering artificial intelligence in LSE’s Research for the World online magazine. Released quarterly, each edition showcases our research and academic work, along with its relevance to policymakers, practitioners, and the general public.
Research for the World magazine
Based in the Department of Media and Commuinications, JournalismAI is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly. JournalismAI is a project of Polis – LSE's journalism think-tank – and is supported by the Google News Initiative.
JournalismAI
Within the LSE Law Technology and Society group, the AI, Ethics and Governance group represent research at the cutting edge of law and technology. Find out more about their work.
LSE Law’s AI Ethics and Governance
The LSE Students’ Union (LSESU) AI Society is a student group dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence, offering events, discussions, and networking opportunities.
LSESU AI Society