Approved sources.
Choose the sources the AI may read. Reads from anywhere else are refused.
A source record
for students’ AI research.
A proposed pilot for one university course. Common Measure limits students’ AI reads to approved sources, applies licence terms and gives each student a record of what their AI read.
Licence terms.
Publishers’ licence and AI-use terms are checked before content reaches the AI.
A record of each source.
Every source read through Common Measure, with its terms and any cost.
What faculty would see.
A record the student chooses to attach to a submission. This one is from a recorded run: four reads, two refused, each with the reason.
Scope common-measure/demo
4 mediated fetches: 2 admitted, 2 refused.
Crossing admitted
GroundedNo AI-use statement: licence recorded as unknown, not as allowed.
- URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations
- Bytes received
- sha256:f3bd985bf80fc7a23dd998177bb1db27780028b14777888504d3f4b32a9cde3c
- Text read
- sha256:1a18717c55ede85cf8fb906bbece35b391789e72adb01c2a161284beec407b1a
- Licence
- unknown
Crossing admitted
GroundedAI use prohibited only in robots.txt comments, which are not machine-readable.
- URL
- https://people.com/
- Bytes received
- sha256:9beeb9302dc6ca243c2bfb0a57d2a5f6185f16aecfb9a4eb3ded803e2bdd4640
- Text read
- sha256:41355f9499ab11c3ea1937e44be3897c75f86ea8f24232736486b75a86ea30d4
- Licence
- unknown
Crossing refused
Payment term unmetLicence requires a subscription and no payment rail is configured. Nothing fetched.
- URL
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/09/mr-congeniality-burnham-advises-badenoch-to-ditch-the-point-scoring-over-defence-spending
- Licence read
- https://theguardian.com/license.xml
- Declared
- ai-input · allow
- train-ai · allow
- ai-index · disallow
- search · disallow
- Payment
- subscription
- Reason
- The licence https://theguardian.com/license.xml permits AI input under payment type subscription, and this edge holds no settlement rail, so the payment term is unmet.
- Fetched
- Nothing. No status, no bytes, no hash.
Crossing refused
Access rule: * refuseHost outside the operator's allowed sources. No request sent.
- URL
- https://www.economist.com/
- Reason
- access rule 32 (*) refuses host www.economist.com.
- Fetched
- Nothing. No status, no bytes, no hash.
In the record
Each source the AI read, its terms, and the AI sessions and models used.
Not in the record
The student’s typing, editing and ideas. AI tools used outside Common Measure.
No score
The record lists what happened. It gives no rating.
Who sees what in the pilot.
Security and privacy- The student
- Holds the record and chooses what to share.
- The university
- Sees how much of its licensed content was used, by title. It does not see who read what.
- Publishers
- Get the usage reports their licence requires, under an identifier only they see.
What exists today and what the pilot adds
Today
- Approved-source rules, with other reads refused
- A record of each source, its terms and cost
- Licence and AI-use terms checked on each read
- Usage reports to content owners
The pilot adds
- Records the student signs for submission
- Library-licensed content through students’ AI tools, where the licence allows
Planned
- Flags for retracted papers
- Checks for references that do not exist
- Students
- 20 to 30. Voluntary, with no effect on grades.
- Assignments
- Two, with different AI-use expectations set on the AI Assessment Scale.
- Review
- Faculty mark the same submissions without the record, then with it.
- Where it runs
- On the student’s own computer, with Claude Code or Codex. A university’s own AI platform is untested.
- Before any student data
- Ethics review and a data agreement with the university.