IB Digital Society 4.5 Human Knowledge Key Definitions

Honesty and fairness in learning and research, including doing your own work and giving credit for others' ideas. Generative AI strains it, because tools can produce work for a student and reliable detection of AI writing has not proven possible.

An approach where software adjusts the content, pace, or difficulty for each learner based on how they are performing, rather than giving everyone the same fixed path. It aims to give more practice where a student struggles and more challenge where they are strong.

A field of computer science dedicated to building systems that can replicate human intelligence and answer complex queries.

A non-expert individual that participates in scientific research.

The gap between people who have reliable access to digital systems and the skills to use them and those who do not, a gap that tends to follow existing lines of income, age, geography, and ability.

AI that produces new text, images, audio, or code by learning patterns from vast training data. It is a powerful form of narrow AI, not a general intelligence, despite how capable it can seem.

Using existing research for further exploration and innovation.