UNEQUAL ACCESS

• Summary Lack of Equity – Only students who can afford the premium AI study coach are benefiting, while others are left without that advantage. This means students have unequal access to the benefits of AI, creating a fairness issue in the class.

• Equitable Use – The school should take steps to ensure all students have equal opportunity to benefit from AI tools. For example, the school could provide a similar AI study coach to all students, offer school licenses or find free alternatives, so that no subset of students is unfairly advantaged.

• Medium Risk – The inequity can widen achievement gaps and cause resentment or morale issues among students. While not a direct safety threat, it undermines the fairness and inclusivity of the learning environment, which is a moderate risk to the school’s educational mission.
   

• Decision: Mitigate. The school would act to correct this imbalance rather than accept it. Mitigation could involve securing access to the AI tool for everyone or adjusting assignments so that using the tool isn’t an unfair advantage. By choosing to mitigate, the school addresses the medium risk to fairness – ensuring that all students, regardless of income, have equal access to learning enhancements, which upholds equity and trust in the classroom.