# AI Lab ethics pledge **For middle- and high-school small groups** **Courses:** club management, web apps, 3D printing, and business projects ## Why we use this pledge AI Lab projects should show what students can learn and make together. The pledge sets shared behavior expectations. It is an acknowledgement of classroom expectations. It is **not a liability waiver, a release of rights, a contract that replaces school policy, or guardian enrollment consent**. The school, host, and instructor still remain responsible for following applicable law, school rules, tool terms, supervision practices, and emergency procedures. ## Student promise I will: 1. **Do my own learning.** I will follow the assignment and school rules. I will not use AI or another person’s work to pretend I completed work I did not do. I will not cheat, help someone else cheat, or ask for an answer when the activity requires my own work. 2. **Say where work came from.** I will name people, sources, code, images, datasets, and AI tools that materially helped my work. I will keep a short AI-use log: tool, date, purpose, important prompt or input, what I kept or changed, and how I checked it. 3. **Check before I trust.** I will test code, measurements, business claims, citations, and generated content. I will tell the group and instructor when an output is uncertain, wrong, biased, unsafe, or missing a source. 4. **Protect people and information.** I will not put a classmate’s private information, login, face, voice, school record, or confidential family information into a public AI tool. I will ask before recording, photographing, publishing, or using someone’s likeness. I will use the class account or approved tool when one is provided. 5. **Respect access controls.** I will not share passwords, tokens, prompt-injection tricks, jailbreaks, paywall workarounds, or instructions for bypassing school filters, classroom controls, plagiarism checks, or tool age limits. If something is blocked, I will ask the instructor for an approved path. 6. **Make room for people.** I will credit teammates, listen, divide work fairly, and keep feedback about the work. I will not use generated content to bully, impersonate, threaten, sexualize, or target another person. 7. **Use equipment safely.** I will follow instructor training and manufacturer directions. I will not operate a 3D printer, heated tool, cutter, or other equipment without the required supervision. I will stop and report smoke, unusual smell, injury, a damaged guard, or a failed print. 8. **Own my part in a group.** I will keep enough notes that I can explain my contribution. I will not submit a group member’s work as mine. I will help a classmate understand a method when help is allowed, but I will not complete their assessed work for them. ### When critique is allowed The instructor may direct us to test, critique, red-team, or analyze a model, app, safety control, or school rule. In that activity I will follow the stated scope, use a sandbox or example data, avoid real people’s accounts and personal data, and report the result to the instructor. Instructor-directed critique is an educational exception to ordinary project limits; it is not permission to misuse a service or evade a school rule. ## If I make a mistake I will stop the unsafe or dishonest action, preserve enough information for a truthful explanation, tell the instructor promptly, and help correct the work. A mistake can be repaired; hiding it makes the risk worse. ## Acknowledgement By signing, the student acknowledges that the instructor reviewed these expectations and that the student agrees to follow them during AI Lab activities. This signature does not waive any legal right, transfer supervision duties, or serve as permission for enrollment, photography, publication, or account creation. Student name: ______________________________________________ Student signature: ___________________________________________ Date: ______________ Guardian name: ______________________________________________ Guardian signature: __________________________________________ Date: ______________ Guardian acknowledgement (initial one): _____ I have read the pledge and understand that it is a classroom-behavior acknowledgement. I understand it is not a liability waiver or enrollment consent. _____ I have questions and will contact the instructor before the student uses an external AI tool or equipment. Instructor: _________________________________________________ Date: ______________ ## Instructor use Review the pledge aloud in age-appropriate language. Collect this page only through the school’s approved process. Obtain separate, explicit forms for enrollment, media release, student accounts, field trips, or other permissions. Keep a visible approved-tool list and a project-specific rule for when AI assistance is allowed. Use human review, conversation, and resubmission to address learning concerns; do not treat an automated detector as proof of misconduct. ## Sources and supplemental viewing The pledge is an original classroom document. These sources informed its boundaries: - [FTC, Complying with COPPA: Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions), especially N.1–N.4 on school consent, educational purpose, notice, and school-level review. - [U.S. Department of Education, Protecting Student Privacy While Using Online Educational Services](https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/Student%20Privacy%20and%20Online%20Educational%20Services%20%28February%202014%29_0.pdf). - [UNESCO, Guidance for generative AI in education and research](https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/guidance-generative-ai-education-and-research), including age-appropriate, human-centered use. - [OpenAI Terms of Use](https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/), current service age and permission terms; every tool has its own current terms. - [Anthropic, Transparency Hub](https://www.anthropic.com/transparency/voluntary-commitments), which states that Claude.ai is 18+. - [NIOSH, Approaches to safe 3D printing](https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2024-103/default.html). Optional viewing is supplemental discussion material, not AI Lab-produced video. Instructors should open each link before class and check age suitability, captions, and current availability: - [UNESCO AI and the futures of learning](https://www.unesco.org/en/digital-education/ai-future-learning) (official explainer and resource hub). - [Code.org, How AI Works](https://code.org/curriculum/how-artificial-intelligence-works) (current grades 6–12 video series and ethics lessons; supplemental external material). - [FTC, Student Privacy and Ed Tech](https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/1255643/student_privacy_and_ed_tech_all.pdf) (official recorded-event resource and transcript/PDF). - [NIOSH, Safe 3D Printing is for Everyone, Everywhere](https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/niosh/newsroom/feature/2022print3D.html) (official safety resource).