AI Policy

TCMIO uses AI to enhance the accessibility of Traditional Chinese Medicine knowledge while maintaining rigorous safety and accuracy standards.

How We Use AI

• Content Generation: AI generates explanatory content from structured data and verified fact cards — never from model memory alone.
• Retrieval-Augmented Answers: AI answers are grounded in the TCMIO knowledge base. We retrieve relevant entities, research, and safety rules before generating any response.
• Quality Assistance: AI helps with citation validation, duplicate detection, and content quality scoring.

What AI Does Not Do

• Provide diagnoses or treatment plans
• Recommend personalized herbal prescriptions or dosages
• Advise stopping prescribed medications
• Generate answers without citing sources from the knowledge base
• Fabricate research findings, clinical conclusions, or expert identities

Transparency

All AI-generated content is logged with model version, prompt version, source IDs, risk level, and generation timestamp. Users can always trace where information comes from.