Six questions to put to an AI vendor
Six questions to send in writing before the demo, one for each layer of TRACES, with what a usable answer looks like and what an evasive one sounds like.
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Six questions to send in writing before the demo, one for each layer of TRACES, with what a usable answer looks like and what an evasive one sounds like.
ReadFive fields that make a step with AI traceable, even a year later. What belongs in them, what doesn't, and how the trail builds itself.
ReadAn assistant that answers good questions well proves little. A test set of twenty questions, half with no answer in your sources, shows whether it can also say it doesn't know.
ReadMany pilots end with "it went quite well" and then nothing happens. A pilot card with six fields, filled in beforehand, means you can choose between continuing, adjusting and stopping when it's over.
ReadA board that has to say yes or no to an AI tool gets more from six written questions than from a demo. Each question comes with the document the school itself should have ready.
ReadAn agreement that teachers won't put student data into a chatbot gets broken in a busy week. What works instead: swap the data out before the prompt, and set up the environment so it's also technically hard to do.
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