Use AI to Help Others — Cooler Than Hurting Anyone

End-of-lesson check

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1. According to the fairness test, using AI to help others is better than using AI to harm others because:

   1. Helping content gets more social media likes
   2. Using AI to help creates value without taking it from someone else — multiple people win
   3. Teachers reward students who use AI helpfully
   4. Helping uses less AI energy than harming

2. If AI helps you write a birthday note for a friend, is the kindness genuine?

   1. No — kindness requires words written entirely by you
   2. Yes — the decision to reach out and the care behind the gesture come from you, not the AI
   3. Only if you tell them AI helped
   4. No — AI cannot help with personal messages

3. Which is an example of using AI to help others?

   1. Using AI to write mean comments about a celebrity you don't like
   2. Using AI to help translate a message for a classmate whose family speaks a different language
   3. Using AI to copy a friend's homework without their knowledge
   4. Using AI to find personal information about someone

4. What does 'AI multiplies what you put in' mean for kindness?

   1. AI makes your kind acts look better than they are
   2. When you direct AI toward kind purposes, it helps you do more good than you could alone
   3. AI automatically adds nice phrases to everything you type
   4. AI only multiplies negative actions, not positive ones

5. Using AI to help your sibling understand a confusing homework concept is cool because:

   1. Your sibling does not have to do their homework anymore
   2. You are using a powerful tool to support someone in your family, and your sibling benefits from better understanding
   3. It keeps your sibling occupied so you have more time for yourself
   4. Teachers prefer when siblings help each other using AI

6. What distinguishes 'helping' from 'doing it for them' when using AI to assist someone?

   1. Helping uses AI; doing it for them uses other tools
   2. Helping means using AI to explain or support so they understand; doing it for them means doing the work they need to do themselves
   3. Helping always takes longer than doing it for them
   4. There is no meaningful difference

7. Using AI to plan a surprise party for a friend — who benefits?

   1. Only you benefit from the planning experience
   2. Your friend benefits from a better celebration, you benefit from making it happen, and other party guests benefit from the event
   3. No one benefits because AI party planning is impersonal
   4. Only people who attend the party benefit

8. Kids who use AI to bully or create harm online versus kids who use AI to help — the key difference is:

   1. Their AI tool quality
   2. Their character and the values they bring to how they use powerful tools
   3. Their age and maturity
   4. Whether their parents know they use AI

9. You want to help your grandparent understand how to use a new phone feature. AI can help you:

   1. Directly control their phone remotely
   2. Draft a simple, step-by-step explanation in language that is easy to follow
   3. Replace the phone feature with an AI version
   4. Contact the phone manufacturer on their behalf

10. The phrase 'the world has enough mean' is making the point that:

    1. AI should be restricted from generating any mean content
    2. You have a genuine opportunity to contribute to the opposite — and AI gives you better tools to do it
    3. Mean content online is now illegal
    4. There are too many AI tools available

11. Using AI to help a friend who is going through something difficult — what is the most important thing to get right?

    1. Making sure the AI response is perfectly worded
    2. Making sure the message reflects what you genuinely feel and care about, even if AI helps with the words
    3. Making sure the AI tool used is approved by parents
    4. Making sure to include as much information as possible

12. Which of these is the best way to describe the coolness of using AI to help others?

    1. Cool because it impresses adults who see you using AI
    2. Cool because choosing to use powerful tools to make things better for real people reflects genuine character
    3. Cool because AI helpers get extra points in school
    4. Cool only when the helping is public and other people see it

13. Using AI to write personal thank-you messages for multiple people who helped you — is this appropriate?

    1. No — thank-you notes must be handwritten to be genuine
    2. Yes — if each message is personalized to what that person specifically did and reflects your real gratitude
    3. No — AI should not be involved in personal gratitude
    4. Only if each person knows AI helped write the message

14. What does the challenge 'use AI to help one specific person today' teach you?

    1. That AI can only help one person per day
    2. That deliberately choosing to help is a practice — and noticing the reaction of the person you help makes it a real learning experience
    3. That AI works best when directed at specific tasks
    4. That helping others earns you platform badges

15. Which is the strongest reason to use AI to help others rather than to harm others?

    1. Helpful content rarely gets removed by platforms
    2. Helping others with AI creates real positive change in real people's lives, while harming creates real damage — and you are the one who chose which to do
    3. Helping is safer because it doesn't violate any rules
    4. AI tools work better when used for positive purposes