Learn how to use AI
Speak from the class you are in. Write the standing rules once. Change the question every week. Do not let the chat become the lab.
Speak from the work
An AI answers the question it was given, in the role it was given. If you do not name the class, the level, and the job, it will invent a role. That is how a biology lab turns into a general essay, and how a field trip turns into a lecture nobody asked for.
Name the room you are in
Say the class or the free study, then the project. “Biology. Lab. Cutting a frog open.” Next week the project changes. The class does not. A free study is named the same way: the study, then the project.
Say who you are in that room
A student in the class. The teacher of the class. A scholar in a free study. The same question is a different job for each of them. A student is learning the dissection. A teacher is preparing the period. Do not leave the AI to guess which one you are.
Say what you already think
One or two sentences in your own words. What you think is happening. What you are unsure of. An AI that only hears the question will fill the silence with a finished answer. Your sentence keeps the answer attached to you.
Say what you want back
Pick one job. Explain the step. Check this claim. List what to observe. Argue the other side. Plan the period. Do not ask for all of them in one breath. A second job is a second turn.
Say what you will not accept
No invented sources. No claim of a measurement that was not made. No writing the lab report in your name. If you do not say the limit, a fluent answer will cross it.
A constitution is the standing order
The question changes every week. The constitution does not. It is the page the AI is meant to follow before it speaks to you: how to talk, what it may do, what it may not do, and how this subject is oriented. You write it. You can change it. It is not a prompt you paste and forget.
Keep one constitution for the class. Every project in that class inherits it: the frog, the silly putty, the petting zoo. A free study gets its own constitution, oriented to that study. A project holds the notes, sources, and the question of the week. It does not each need a new constitution unless the subject itself has changed.
What to write
Write it as short rules, in the order you want them obeyed. Five parts are enough.
Subject
Name the class and what this subject treats as the point. Biology: organisms, structure, and what you can observe. Physics: a measurement, a model, and the difference between them. A field trip is still that subject. The place changed. The orientation did not.
Person
Who the AI is speaking to, and who remains responsible. The student writes the note. The teacher decides the assignment. The AI does not become the author, the grader, or the witness.
Voice
Plain speech. No praise. No apology tour. No false certainty. If it does not know, it says it does not know. Match the level of the class: a first lab is not a journal article, and a journal article is not a first lab.
Claims
Separate what was seen, what this class has already established, what is a model, what is a guess, and what is unknown. A confident paragraph is not evidence. A source that cannot be opened does not count. The site’s uses six labels for published work: Observed, Experimentally Supported, Theoretical, Hypothetical, Interpretive, Speculative. A class can use those, or a shorter set, but it must use one set and keep it.
Bounds
The chat stays a record. The project stays the home of the work. The AI may help you think, check, and prepare. It may not invent a citation, hide uncertainty, or hand you a finished report as if you had done the lab.
One constitution, three projects
This is a biology class. The constitution stays. The projects change.
You are speaking with a student in Biology.
This class studies living structure and what can be observed. A lab, a making exercise, and a field trip are all projects in this class. Orient every answer to organisms, structure, and observation. Do not turn the period into a different subject.
Speak plainly, at the level of this class. Do not flatter. If you do not know, say so. Mark each claim as seen, taught in this class, a model, a guess, or unknown. Do not invent a source. Do not describe a measurement that was not made.
The student writes the note and the report. You may explain, question, and check. You may not write the finished work in the student’s name.
This week’s project is named in the question. Stay inside that project. Do not drag in another week’s lab unless the student asks.
Week one, the project is Cutting a frog open. You ask what to look for in the body cavity, and you say you have not cut yet. Week two, the project is Making silly putty. Same constitution. The question is now about the material in your hands. Week three, the project is Petting zoo. It is not a lab. You say so. The constitution still orients the hour to living animals and what you can observe, not to a worksheet that pretends the zoo was a dissection.
Turn the orientation when the subject turns
A physics class does not reuse the biology paragraph. Change the subject. Keep the duties.
You are speaking with a student in Physics.
Orient every answer to a stated setup, a measurement or a model, and the difference between them. A calculation that follows from assumptions is not a new observation. Say which is which. Use the words measured, supports, predicts, proposes, and unknown on purpose.
Define the symbol before you use it. Give the unit. Say the approximation. Do not offer a derivation as if it were data.
The student keeps the note, the source, and the working. You do not become the author of the report.
A free study is oriented the same way, to the study the scholar named, not to a school period. The person line changes from student to scholar. The bounds do not.
How to put it to work
Write the constitution in the class
One page. The five parts. Read it aloud once. If a sentence does not tell the AI what to do, cut it.
Open the project
Name it. This week’s lab, next week’s lab, or the field trip. The folders under it are the same: Notes, Sources, Questions, Reading List, Bookshelf, Study folder, Drafts, Manuscript Formats, Equation Cards.
Give the constitution, then the turn
Paste the constitution first. Then the project name, what you already think, and the one job you want. Stop.
Keep the chat and move the useful part
The exchange is a Word file you can edit as soon as it is recorded, or later. Put only what this project needs into Notes. Put a source you still must open into Sources.
Correct the constitution when it fails
If the AI leaves the subject, praises you, or invents a citation, add one rule that forbids that exact thing. Do not write a new constitution for every mistake. Amend the one you have.
