Definition Ethical and futures judgment is weighing who a creation is fair to, whom it could harm and what it leaves behind over time, and crediting the AI's part openly.
It begins with crediting help, moves to auditing bias and privacy, and reaches weighing effects years ahead.
Why it matters with AI
Once AI is involved, authorship blurs easily. The IB does not ban AI tools, but it requires AI-generated material to be credited.
How CIT teaches it: Impact audit and a public AI-use log
Every project gets a bias and privacy checklist, and a log of which AI was used at which stage and how, published with the artifact.
What proficiency looks like at each age
- Elementary Names one way their work could make someone uncomfortable and credits the help they had.
- Middle school Completes a bias and privacy checklist and attaches the AI-use log to the artifact.
- High school Writes an impact assessment that looks years ahead and answers the strongest objection from someone with a different stake.
Four recorded levels
- 1 Emerging Does it when an adult walks through the steps.
- 2 Developing Does it alone on familiar tasks; needs support on new ones.
- 3 Proficient Shows the grade-band indicator on an unfamiliar task, unaided.
- 4 Extending Teaches it to others or carries it into a new field.
Where this skill is used in the CIT Loop
- 1. Empathize Hear what the people who will use it actually live with, before building anything.
- 6. Share Show it to the people it is for and explain it in your own words, without AI.
Evidence
- International Baccalaureate (2023). Statement from the IB about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence in assessment and education. The IB will not ban AI software; students must credit AI-generated material and not present it as their own.
- Miao, F. & Shiohira, K. (2024). AI Competency Framework for Students. UNESCO. Twelve competencies in four dimensions, each at three levels: Understand, Apply, Create.
Courses that train this skill
- AI + X lab · Which field's assumptions is AI about to break?
- AI and psychology (Mind Lab) · What is a feeling made of?
Related skills
A1 Specification & PromptcraftA2 Delegation & VerificationA3 Trust Calibration
First Principles Thinking: Every lesson opens with one first-principles question. Metacognition: Every lesson closes with a teach-back or a calibration check.