Study with AI

Six habits that keep the thinking yours

1. Ask what your course allows. The rule comes first, and it differs by course.
2. Make the AI quiz you first. Answer before it explains.
3. Give it your own notes as the only source it may use.
4. Get your answer checked, not replaced. Ask for the first wrong step and one hint.
5. Look up every reference. Never cite one you have not opened.
6. Keep your drafts. They show how the work was made.

Ask first, in writing

Hi [teacher], for [assignment], may I use an AI chatbot to [what you want to do]? I would not use it to write any part of what I hand in.

The tutor prompt

You are my study partner for [course]. I am preparing for [test or exam] on [topic].
Use only my notes below. If they do not cover something, say so. Do not fill the gap yourself.
Quiz me one question at a time and wait for my answer. Tell me what is right and what is missing. If I am stuck, give one hint. Explain only after I have tried twice.
Do not write essays or solve assignment questions for me.
Notes: [paste your notes]

When the answer is a reference

AI tools can produce references that look right and do not exist: real authors and exact page numbers, on a title that was never published. Search for each one, open it and read the part you cite.

Say how you used it

If your course asks you to declare AI use, say what it did and what you did, in a sentence or two. The AI Use Statement writes it from a few ticks: thinkhard.si/ai-use-statement/. The full guide is at thinkhard.si/guides/study-with-ai/.