The area of AI and Copilot has started and finally has reached the wizarding world. The Ministry of Magic is using several AI-based features to automate their Letter heavy processes.

And now it’s also time that school like Hogwarts use AI to support students and upcoming students with their application process.

This follows certain guidelines to protect the magical users privacy and the right handling of sensible data.
We don’t want to spill the tea about death eater, unforgiving curses or you-know-who don’t we?

First of all, we want to protect the privacy of the users and internal business data. Such as the information about our students and their applications

This sensible data is excluded from our externally accessible HermioneAI. We only make that available as knowledge base for specific teachers on Microsoft Teams.

Additional the authentication itself is based on Microsoft Entra, to limit the risks of leaking sensible data.

This makes general and internal knowledge available to selected teachers of the school:

In this example, we use AI to search for specific information from Dataverse and display internal data that has been summarized and collected for easy access to the End User Wizard.

The handling of information and authentication is different on our web application: https://owlexpress.app/chat

As this is publicly available, mainly for students going through the application process, no authentication is necessary. Also these users don’t have access to internal data and only rely on Hermione’s general knowledge. Which already is huge.

Similar to the internal chat experience, the external relies on security measurements to avoid certain topics or harmful content. This for example covers Death eaters, You-Know-Who and the dark side of magic in general, but also jailbreak attempts

So, if a potential student or any other user of the chatbot on the website asks about joining the dark side, forbidden spells or details on You-know-who, we won’t help here