AI at HKU SPACE: Integrity, Innovation, and Risk Management
HKU SPACE embraces the transformative potential of Generative AI (Gen AI) to foster innovation, leadership, and ethical, secure adoption across all educational and administrative functions. Aligning with The University of Hong Kong’s official stance, the School ensures responsible use by prioritising academic integrity, data privacy, and institutional trust. Supporting this, new operational guidelines are in place to mitigate AI hallucinations and misinformation, ensuring a secure, accountable digital environment. Visit the official policy and guidelines for full details.
The HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE) acknowledges the transformative potential of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in higher education and embraces its role in fostering innovation, critical engagement and leadership in AI adoption.
In line with The University of Hong Kong’s official policies, this document establishes the institutional policy for Gen AI use within HKU SPACE, ensuring responsible, ethical, secure, and risk-managed practices across teaching, learning, research, administration, and public-facing services.
This policy upholds academic integrity, protects data privacy, manages institutional and reputational risk, and fosters a culture of accountability, innovation, and institutional trust.
As artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of academic and organisational processes, it is essential to manage risks associated with AI hallucination and misinformation. AI hallucination refers to situations where AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), generate information that appears credible but is factually incorrect, incomplete, or misleading.
This Guideline operationalises the School’s Policy on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence and establishes proportionate controls for risk mitigation, monitoring, and remediation.
The rapid emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) requires programme‑level updates to curricula, teaching and learning activities, assessment tasks etc., so that graduates are future‑ready, ethical, and competitive.
These guidelines operationalise School‑wide directions on GenAI by:
・embedding AI literacy and ethics in programme and course learning outcomes where appropriate;
・promoting authentic, AI-enabled learning and assessments; and
・instituting safeguards against AI-related risks, including hallucinations, privacy, copyright and licensing issues, and breaches of academic integrity.