The reader
This page is for the student. The ethics page is for the adult who writes the brief. Your job is to leave a record of a no that cost you something convenient.
Three nos worth practicing this month
No to other people’s drafts. If a classmate’s paragraph would raise your score, that is the test. Write the reason you did not paste it. Keep the reason in the folder.
No to private records. Family documents, medical notes, identity numbers, and other students’ faces do not belong in a prompt. If you almost did it, write what stopped you.
No to fake certainty. If your map has an empty node, the sentence cannot say “research shows” as if the node were full. Hedge or cut the line.
The boundary list
One page. Three columns: I may ask a model to… / I must label… / I will not… Fill it for the current task, not for “AI in general.” General lists are how refusal becomes wallpaper.
How this gets marked
A reviewer looks for the costly no, not for a speech about responsibility. A fluent paragraph about ethics with no recorded refusal is incomplete. You can send questions about the practice to info@hnk.org; do not send other people’s files with the question.
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