Protect, verify, keep control.

Before proceeding, follow these eight rules.

1. Use only an authorised tool

   The teacher checks that the tool is authorised by the institution and suitable for the activity. A student must not be required to create a personal account on a general public AI service.

   If AI is not essential, an equivalent activity without AI should be available.

2. Respect age and supervision requirements

   At primary level, pupils may learn about AI but should not directly operate a generative AI service.

   From French 4e level, around ages 12 to 13, classroom use should remain limited, explained, supervised and accompanied by the teacher.

   At upper secondary level, more autonomous use is possible within a learning framework explicitly defined by the teacher.

3. Enter no personal or confidential data

   Never enter into AI:

   • a surname, first name, address or telephone number;
   • an email address, identifier or password;
   • the institution or class name, or information that could identify a student;
   • a photograph, voice recording or document containing personal data;
   • information about health, family, difficulties or academic results;
   • a student’s work containing their identity or the teacher’s comments.

   Several apparently harmless details may be enough to identify a person.

4. Protect conversations

   When the service settings allow it:

   • disable the use of conversations for training or service improvement;
   • disable history, tracking and geolocation;
   • avoid individual student accounts;
   • prefer institutional tools, secure access and stronger privacy settings.

5. Never treat an answer as true by default

   AI can produce a convincing but false answer, invent a source or conceal uncertainty. Important information must be checked against one or more reliable external sources. If it cannot be verified, it must not be used as an established fact.

6. Look for bias and absent viewpoints

   Answers may reproduce stereotypes, privilege certain cultures or present one viewpoint as universal.

   • Who or what is absent from this answer?
   • Which other serious viewpoint should be examined?

7. Respect copyright and disclose AI use

   Do not send protected or confidential text, images, works or documents to a general public AI service without authorisation.

   When a production has been created with AI assistance, state:

   • the tool used;
   • the function entrusted to it;
   • the parts retained or transformed;
   • the checks carried out.

   An AI-generated production must not be presented as entirely personal work.

8. Keep the decision human

   AI may propose, compare, reformulate or question. It must not decide a grade, educational direction, sanction or any decision with consequences for a person. Intention, verification and the final decision remain human.