Using AI responsibly: privacy, honesty and fairness
Responsible use means protecting your and others' privacy, being honest about how you used AI, and remembering AI can reflect unfair patterns in its training data.
Keep out: passwords, bank details, ID numbers, health information, other people's personal details, and confidential work information.
Check the settings: many tools let you turn off chat history or training on your conversations.
Schoolwork and work: follow your school's or employer's rules. If AI helped, say how. Using it to understand is different from submitting its words as your own.
Bias: AI learns from human data, so it can repeat stereotypes. Question answers about people and groups.
Children under the tool's minimum age should not have their own account; many services set 13 or 18.
Worked example 1
You want AI help with a complaint letter about a neighbour. What do you remove?
Remove names, address and phone numbers.
Describe the situation generally: ‘a neighbour's loud music after midnight’.
Answer: Use placeholders such as [Name] and [Address] and fill them in yourself afterwards.
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Practice questions
Beginner · ages 11+
AI, privacy and responsible use
NameDate
Answer safe or unsafe to share with a public chatbot.
1.Your online banking password
2.A general question about how volcanoes work
3.A friend's medical diagnosis with their name
4.A recipe you want halved
5.Your passport number
Beginner · answersAnswer key
AI, privacy and responsible use — answer key
Answer safe or unsafe to share with a public chatbot.
1.Your online banking passwordunsafe
2.A general question about how volcanoes worksafe
3.A friend's medical diagnosis with their nameunsafe
4.A recipe you want halvedsafe
5.Your passport numberunsafe
Tips
Common mistakes
Pasting whole work documents into a personal AI account.
Pasting work documents or other people’s personal details into a public chatbot without permission.
