Students should be aware of the school's official policy regarding AI tools. This includes understanding what types of AI use are permitted, restricted, or prohibited. Knowing the boundaries helps students stay within ethical and academic expectations.

AI tools like Flint are designed to support and extend student thinking, not bypass it. Students should be encouraged to use AI to ask questions, gather feedback, and deepen understanding. Reinforce that using AI should enhance their learning process and critical thinking, not undermine it.

Plagiarism and misrepresentation can occur when students submit AI-generated content as their own. Students should understand that academic integrity still applies when working with AI. What they submit must reflect their own thinking, and AI use should never be hidden or deceptive.

Transparency is key to building trust in academic environments. Students should be comfortable discussing how they used AI in their work, what kind of help they received, and how they applied it. Teachers may ask for statements in which student describe their process, and students should save drafts and AI transcripts to verify this process if requested. 

Where does AI Fit In for the PP?

Discuss with your Mentor how you may use AI tools for your Product and your Report. 

The IB has two major considerations you need to ask yourself:

• Are you using AI to help you learn? If so, it may be acceptable.
  If you're using it to offload your learning, it is not acceptable.

• Are you using AI to pretend you did something you did not? If so, it is not acceptable.

More specifically, for the written report, you should look at the AI Assessment Spectrum (below) and stay in AI Planning. 

This means that you can use AI to:

✅ point you to sources
✅ outline or organize
✅ plan
✅ ideate
✅ create examples 

You then need to critique and fact-check the output, and develop and refine it using your own critical thinking. You also need to keep a copy of your AI chat transcripts in a tab in your journal and write an acknowledgement statement at the end of your Report. 

You may not use AI to:

❌ develop your original Product or Learning Goals (use your Mentor for this)
❌ translate your report
❌ edit or give you feedback on your report
❌ rewrite your report
❌ generate reflections

For developing your Product, you may be able to use Full AI or even AI Exploration. It just depends on your Product. Your Mentor can guide you about what is appropriate. 

For further advice/help, see your Mentor. See also AI Scenarios by the IBO.