Checking AI answers
Strategy card
Verify AI output like a reviewer: reasoning, evidence and limits.
- Step 1: Form your own answer or estimate first.
- Step 2: Audit each step: is it valid? Is the data real?
- Step 3: Check claims against primary or reliable sources.
- Step 4: Note what the answer leaves out or assumes.
Tip: Fluent writing is not evidence. Sources and checkable steps are.
Worked example
What is the main problem with this reasoning?
“I asked five friends, and all of them love the new game. So everyone at our school must love it.”
- A: The speaker should have asked teachers only.
- B: Five friends are too small and too similar a group to speak for the whole school. (the answer)
- C: The game might be expensive.
- D: Games can't be loved.
Why: A small group of friends is not a fair sample of the whole school.
Your turn
Your turn 1 of 3
How many cups in all?
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cups | 50 | 90 | 100 | 45 | 95 |
Your turn 2 of 3
Which fact would most weaken the company's claim?
A juice company says: “Kids who drink our juice score higher on spelling tests, so our juice makes kids better spellers.”
Your turn 3 of 3
What is the range (largest minus smallest)?
Keep practicing
Grown-ups: Discuss when it's fine to use AI and when to rely on your own work. Parent guide
Next lesson: What comes next?