Use, limit, or decline AI. On purpose.
AI can help with the work. Usewright makes sure the understanding is still yours, and lets you show it. Decide how much to rely on AI before each task, try the core skill yourself, explain your work without AI, and check a week later that it stuck. It never sees submitted work and never tries to detect AI.
Decide, reflect, disclose
Plan your AI use and what you will try yourself first. Afterward, explain your work without AI, practice the questions someone might ask you, and copy an AI use statement. Works with or without an instructor.
See where AI replaces the skill
Name the skill each task must protect and choose a policy level in one click. See class patterns, including how many could still explain the work a week later. Never individual entries. Every lead commits that entries are for learning, not for integrity cases.
Talk about AI before it becomes a problem
Researchers keep a dated AI use statement for the whole thesis and practice for their defense. They choose which entries to share before a meeting, and you record how well they explained the work in their own words.
- 1Plan and try first
- 2Do the work
- 3Reflect and explain
- 4Coach and record
- 5Revisit
Each task adds to a person's AI judgment record: whether they planned with a reason and before the work was due, followed through, checked AI output, disclosed its use, could explain the result without AI, and could still explain it a week later. Declining AI for a good reason counts as strongly as using it well.