USING AI

IB Specific Guidance

Statement from the IB around AI usage (March 2023)

IB Academic Integrity Policy (updated with AI guidance - p53 Appendix 6)

Common questions and concerns

Sample Theory of knowledge (TOK) activities:

Using AI-generated content as a TOK object 

Interactive feedback exercise 

What does the IB expect when a teacher checks the authentication box to confirm that work is the student’s own? 

• The teacher has seen the student develop the work over a period of time. IB coursework is not designed to be completed in a single evening. This is the best approach in ensuring that the work belongs to the student, and it also encourages best practice in writing coursework. 

• The student can explain their work sufficiently to give confidence that it has been created by them. 

• The student is clear when they are quoting other people’s ideas and when they are claiming an idea or conclusion as their own work. This is the expected way of referencing. 

• The teacher confirms the quality of the final piece of work is in line with what they would expect the student to be able to produce.

How should teachers guide their students when using AI tools? 

Students should be informed of the following rules. 

• If they use the text (or any other product) produced by an AI tool be that by copying or paraphrasing that text or modifying an image they must clearly reference the AI tool in the body of their work and add it to the bibliography. 

• The in-text citation should contain quotation marks using the referencing style already in use by the school and the citation should also contain the prompt given to the AI tool and the date the AI generated the text. The same applies to any other material that the student has obtained from other categories of AI tools for example, images.