Ask AI to find weak spots in your Human Agency Plan. Check its claims and decide what to keep, revise, or reject in your own words.
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The activity is included on this page. Work on paper or in your own document; keep your first attempt and the evidence you checked.
AI Lab: Red Team My Plan
Use only an AI tool your instructor approves and that allows users your age. Check its minimum age and parent-permission rules first; an adult's permission cannot override an 18+ limit. Follow your school's rules, and do not share personal information. About 30 minutes.
1. Type a draft of your Human Agency Plan. Remove names, your school, and every private detail.
2. Use Carla's Five Step prompt to ask the AI to red team your plan. Tell it not to rewrite anything.
3. Copy each challenge into a decision log:
| AI's challenge | Keep, Revise, or Reject | My reason |
|---|
| | |
4. Make at least one Revise decision and consider at least one Reject. Rejecting a point is allowed. Explaining why is required.
5. Verify: If the AI made any factual claim, such as what a tool does with your data or what an age rule says, check it against the official source: the tool's own policy page or your school's AI policy. Write what you found and where.
6. Record your AI use: which tool you used, what you asked, and which challenges you kept, revised, or rejected.
Own It
No AI. About 30 minutes.
Write your final Human Agency Plan by hand, on one page, using the eight parts in Context File Upgrade below. Sign it and date it. Write your next audit date at the bottom.
Then practice explaining it out loud in two minutes with no notes. If you cannot explain a line, rewrite it until you can.
This is your capstone portfolio piece: your Human Agency Plan.
Context File Upgrade
Add your final section, then save the whole file as my_context_V2.md.
## My Human Agency Plan
- The thing I want to protect:
- My AI may:
- My AI may not:
- I verify by:
- I unplug when:
- My returned time goes to:
- I push back or stop when:
- My next audit date:
Your V2 file should now hold every section you built this semester, from "About Me" in Chapter 1 through "My College Plan" and "Career Interests." Read it top to bottom. Delete anything private. Update anything that changed. This file is who you are to your AI, in short form, and you are in charge of every line.
Skeptic's Corner: The Future, Labeled
These statements are exercises to classify and check. Do not assume every statement is true.
Label each statement: Fact, Idea, Rob's Story, Made-Up Example, Rule, or Prediction.
1. "UNESCO's AI competency framework for students lists 12 competencies across four dimensions."
2. "AI will replace most teachers by 2035." (A claim you might see online.)
3. "Time returned is capacity, not destiny."
4. "Mike's group caught the AI counting Tuesday twice."
5. "UNESCO's 2023 guidance calls for setting an age limit for independent conversations with GenAI platforms."
6. "Students must follow their school's AI policy."
Read the video transcript
Read along, pause, or return to an idea. This transcript follows the selected lesson video.
I'm Carla, an AI avatar.
This is my Human Agency Plan.
I wrote it by hand, one page, eight parts.
Today I'm going to ask an AI to attack it.
Nicely.
Before we open the AI, what do I want?
A plan with fewer weak spots that is still completely mine.
So the AI doesn't get to rewrite a single word.
A red team plays the opponent on purpose.
It finds weak spots before a real problem does.
Here's the rule: the AI finds problems.
I make the decisions.
Think of it like a scrimmage.
Your teammates play the other side so the real game has
fewer surprises.
First, I type the plan with no names,
no school, and nothing private.
Role: you are a friendly but tough red team reviewer.
Objective: find weak spots in my plan.
Do not rewrite it.
Confirm and wait.
Context: here's my plan.
It covers my values, what AI may and may not do for me,
my verify and offline habits, my saved time,
my stop rules, and my review date.
Task Instructions: list the five biggest weaknesses.
For each one, explain the risk in one sentence and ask me
one question.
Do not suggest wording.
Here they come.
One: my stop rule has no trigger.
Two: never using AI for writing may be unrealistic.
Three: there's no review date.
Four: my returned time line is vague.
Five: my offline habit has no time attached.
Audit the AI Output: which of your points are opinions,
and which depend on facts I should check?
It says one point depends on my school's AI policy.
I'll check that myself.
That audit question matters.
An opinion, I can accept or reject.
A fact claim, I have to check.
Now my decision log.
Stop rule with no trigger: revise.
I'm adding, if I can't explain it without AI, I stop.
Never using AI for writing is unrealistic: reject.
My school's rules and my values say my writing stays mine.
Rejecting a point is allowed.
I just have to write down my reason.
No review date: revise.
I'll review on the first day of each semester,
and any time a tool or a rule changes.
Returned time is vague: revise.
I wrote, Sunday mornings, no phone until noon,
and one long walk.
Offline habit with no time: revise, same fix.
Notice what I did not do.
I did not paste the AI's wording into my plan,
and I did not let it pick my values.
It asked questions.
I answered them.
Verify: the AI brought up my school's rules,
so I read the actual policy.
My plan fits it.
If the AI had said something about a tool's privacy
settings or an age rule, I'd check that on the tool's own
policy page, too.
And I record my AI use: the tool,
what I asked, and which points I kept,
revised, or rejected.
Last, the real test.
I read my plan out loud in two minutes, no notes.
If I can't explain a line, I rewrite it until I can.
Your plan is going to change.
That's the point.
My next audit is already on my calendar:
the first day of next semester.
The AI found the weak spots.
I decided what to fix.
It's still my plan.
Your turn.
Before you use an AI tool
Follow your course or institution's rules. Use an instructor-approved tool that permits your age, and meet any required consent conditions. Keep names, contact details, school records, and other private information out of prompts. Use fictional examples when you can.
Learning without an AI account
Follow the demonstration, pause before each answer, and do the reasoning on paper. Discuss what you would ask, how you would check it, and which decisions would remain yours.
About the characters and voices
This course uses AI-created characters and synthetic voices. Carla is an AI avatar. They help tell the story; they are not real students sharing testimonials.
Designed for high-school and community-college learners. Choose examples from your classes, work, and everyday life. Keep your completed work in your course portfolio.
