Does King's College London use AI detection? No
Short answer
No. King's College London does not run AI detection on submissions, so no AI score is generated for your work.
Module rules on permitted AI use still apply either way, and a detector score is never the whole case — the university’s own statement and what it means for you are below.
What King's College London has said
Opted out. King's decided "not to enable the AI detection % in Turnitin", citing reliability concerns and false-positive risk; states AI detection is not currently available to markers.
Source (Oct 2023, updated Apr 2025): KCL AI guidance
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What this means if you study here
King's took its decision early — October 2023 — and has kept it under review since, restating in 2025 that the AI detection percentage is not enabled and is not available to markers. A KCL submission generates a similarity report, but no Turnitin AI score exists for your work.
That does not make AI use undetectable at King's: markers still act on style shifts, fabricated references and work that doesn't match the module, and misconduct procedures handle those concerns through evidence and conversation. What the opt-out removes is the scenario of defending yourself against a number.
Turnitin at King's College London
King's College London has opted out of Turnitin's AI writing indicator, so no Turnitin AI score is generated for submissions. Similarity (plagiarism) checking is a separate Turnitin feature and remains the sector norm — an opt-out of AI detection does not mean submissions go unchecked for source matching.
How the AI writing report behaves wherever it is enabled — the 300-word minimum, the 1–19% asterisk band, and why the score is never proof on its own — is covered in does Turnitin detect AI?
Before you submit, anywhere
- Policies change and are re-verified here quarterly — the university’s linked statement above is always the authority, and your module brief overrides everything.
- Whatever the institutional toggle, keep your drafts and version history: process evidence decides disputes, not scores.
- No third-party tool predicts a Turnitin result — here is why. Use checks to understand your own writing, not to chase a number.
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