Students · The RAFT Framework for Ethical AI Use

Explain your AI use

Describe what the tool did, what you did, and how you checked the work. Follow the format and level of detail required by your instructor.

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What a useful explanation includes

• The tool and relevant date or version, when required.
• The specific task or portion of the work AI supported.
• What you retained, changed, or rejected.
• How you checked relevant output and what reasoning or work remained yours.

Brainstorming after your own research

Why it helps: it identifies the independent starting point, the bounded assistance, and what happened to the suggestions. Add the specific sources or prompt excerpts if the assignment requires them.

Feedback on a draft

Why it helps: it distinguishes critique from text generation and names the section affected. Do not use the last sentence if you retained generated wording.

If the assignment requires a record

Use your process log to supply details rather than reconstructing them from memory. Keep only the evidence your course needs; do not include other people’s private information in a disclosure.

Coding assistance

Name any generated code you retained; do not imply that all code was independently written. Passing a test is useful evidence, but it does not replace understanding the code or meeting the assignment’s AI rules.

Language support

If the tool translated or substantially rewrote text, describe that assistance directly. Grammar correction, translation, and rewriting are different uses and may have different permission requirements.

Study practice

This describes preparation, not assistance during an assessment. Include it when your course requires disclosure of study use; do not imply that practice permission applies to a quiz or exam.

Build your own explanation

“I used [tool and date] to [specific support] in [part of the work]. I retained or changed [details] and checked them by [method]. I independently completed [work or decisions].”

If you did not use AI, state that only when true and when a declaration is requested. Ask your instructor where the disclosure belongs and whether a formal citation, prompt record, or other evidence is also needed.