💻 TechnologyLevel 1Lesson 35
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Learn That AI Must Be Used Kindly and Safely

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What you will learn

  • 1Explain three rules for using AI tools kindly and safely
  • 2Give examples of kind use and unkind use
  • 3State that humans are always responsible for what they do with an AI tool
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Mini Lesson

Smart tools are powerful — and with great power comes great responsibility! You have already learned to use technology kindly and safely. Those exact same values apply to AI tools too.

Rule 1 — Use AI for helpful purposes

  • AI tools should be used to help, learn, create, and solve problems.
  • Example: Using an AI tool to get ideas for a story — kind and helpful ✅
  • Using an AI tool to write mean messages about someone — unkind and wrong ✗

Rule 2 — Be honest about AI help

  • If an AI tool helped you with your work, say so — do not pretend you did everything yourself.
  • Using an AI tool to do all your practice and pretending it is your own is called cheating.
  • Your own thinking, effort, and creativity are what matter most — AI can help with your work, not replace it.

Rule 3 — Humans are responsible

  • Whatever an AI tool produces, the human who used it is responsible for what happens next.
  • If you use an AI tool to do something unkind, saying "the tool did it" is not a good excuse.
  • Always think: "Is what I am about to do with this tool kind, honest, and safe?"

A helpful test

  • Before using a smart tool, ask yourself three questions: Is this kind? Is this honest? Is this safe?
  • If the answer to all three is yes — go ahead with your grown-up. If any answer is no — stop and think again.

Words to know

Kind

Friendly and caring in what you do or say

e.g. Using AI to help a friend learn is a kind use.

Honest

Telling the truth and not pretending

e.g. I am honest and say if AI helped me with a task.

Safe

Free from harm

e.g. Safe AI use means following the rules and asking an adult.

Responsible

Owning the choices you make

e.g. The human is responsible for what the AI helps make.

Cheat

To pretend you did work that someone or something else did

e.g. Letting AI do all your practice and saying it is yours is cheating.

Three rules for using AI kindly and safelyThree rule cards stacked vertically. Rule 1 in green: Use AI for helpful purposes. Rule 2 in blue: Be honest about AI help. Rule 3 in orange: Humans are responsible. Each card has an icon and a short explanation.Three Rules for AI UseRule 1 — Helpful purposesUse AI to help, learn, create,and solve problems. Not to hurt anyone.Rule 2 — Be honestSay when AI helped you. Do notpretend its work is all your own.Rule 3 — Humans are responsibleYou are responsible for how youuse the tool and what happens next.
Three rules for AI use — use it for helpful purposes, be honest about AI help, and remember that humans are always responsible for what they do with it.
Kind versus unkind uses of AI toolsTwo columns. Left column in green labeled Kind use of AI shows: getting story ideas, checking my own work, asking it to explain something, using it to learn something new. Right column in red labeled Unkind use of AI shows: writing mean messages, pretending its work is yours, using it to trick someone, doing all your practice with it and lying.Kind useGetting ideas for a storyChecking my own draft for ideasAsking it to explain a wordUsing it to learn something newUnkind useWriting mean messagesSaying its work is all yoursUsing it to trick someoneLetting it do all your work and lying
Kind uses of AI (story ideas, explaining words, learning) versus unkind uses (mean messages, pretending, tricking, cheating).
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Ask yourself: "Is what I am about to do with this tool kind, honest, and safe?"

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