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1. Choose your role
2. Choose your situation
A talk goes wrong when it becomes a debate to win. It goes well when people try to understand the same thing.
- A school or parent groupPTA, staff meeting, curriculum night.
- A clinic team or health boardMorbidity and quality, ethics, procurement.
- A congregation, council, or neighborhoodCivic life, mutual aid, a town that did not buy the tool but lives under it.
- Young people, and those who sit with themYouth group, classroom, library.
For I want to start a conversation
A school or parent group
A way to begin
What is already in use here that we have not named together?
3. Questions to bring
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Who is not in this room and should be before we choose a path?
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Are we talking about help, ranking, or surveillance — and do we agree?
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What would a small, time-boxed trial look like, and what would make us stop?
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How will students speak as people who already live with these tools, not as an audience?
Related concerns
Grading-AI errors and bias
Automated-grading error occurs when AI assigns an inaccurate or unfair score, including when language patterns influence the result more than the skill being assessed.
Special-education AI
Special-education AI risk arises when a tool intended to support a learner with a disability does not fit their needs or is used to replace necessary individualized support.
AI companions and adolescent development
AI companions may affect adolescent development when they become a major setting for learning about trust, boundaries and relationships.
Sources for this situation
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A law with high-risk lists
EU AI Act
European Union
An external overview of the EU AI Act and its approach to different uses of AI.
Use this for orientation, and consult the original legal text to establish requirements.