Your First Chat with an AI Assistant

By the end of this lesson you can:

• Have a first, safe chat with an AI assistant.
• Follow the class AI rules every time you use AI.
• Use the report-and-stop rule if something goes wrong.

Last lesson we learned a chatbot predicts words. Today we actually chat with one.

If a helpful AI was sitting beside you, what is the very first useful thing you'd ask it? Write one idea down.

An AI assistant is a helpful tool, but like any tool we use it carefully. Before we chat, learn the five class AI rules.

1. Teacher opens it. Only use the class chatbot your teacher has set up. You never sign up for your own.
2. No personal data. Never type your full name, address, phone number, school, or photos of people.
3. Be kind and sensible. Ask helpful, school-friendly questions.
4. Check the answer. The AI can be confidently wrong — sense-check anything important.
5. Report and stop. If it ever shows something upsetting, unsafe, or strange, stop and tell your teacher straight away.

What is the class chatbot?

Your teacher uses a safe, teacher-managed AI tool. You might type into it yourself, or your teacher might run it on the big screen while the class suggests what to ask. Either way, the teacher is in charge of it.

Follow along with your teacher.

1. Your teacher opens the class chatbot and shows the screen.
2. As a class, agree on one safe, helpful question.
3. Send it and read the reply together.
4. Spot one fact in the reply and decide how you'd check it.

Here is the kind of safe exchange we're aiming for:

Notice it's clear, friendly, and on-topic — and we'd still double-check the science in a book or with our teacher.

Using the teacher-opened chatbot, try these. Keep to the class AI rules.

You had your first safe chat with an AI assistant. The class AI rules keep us safe: teacher opens it, no personal data, be kind, check the answer, and report-and-stop if anything looks wrong. Next lesson we learn to ask well — that's prompting.