Responsible AI-assistant use (students and teachers)

AI assistants can be good tutors and poor shortcuts. Rules for this curriculum:

1. Explain, don't answer. Ask the assistant to explain an idea or a error message, not to write the whole solution.
2. Disclose. In every project write one line: "AI help used for: ___" (or "none").
3. Own it. Assessment always includes an oral check: the student explains their code/graph/conclusion without the assistant. If you cannot explain it, it does not count as your work yet.
4. Verify. Assistants invent facts, columns and sources ("hallucination"). Check every number against the dataset card.
5. Protect people. Never paste names, phone numbers, photos or survey rows about real classmates into a tool.
6. Offline fallback. Every task works without AI or internet.

Prompt card (print and keep)

• "Explain what groupby does using an example about districts."
• "My code gives this error: ___. Don't fix it — give me a hint about where to look."
• "Check my interpretation of this graph: ___. What am I missing?"

Teacher notes

Grade 10+ has a unit on AI literacy: what a model is, training data, bias, hallucination, and who benefits or is harmed.