The AI Archive
Explore how AI developed and where its limits appear.
CodeBash / Year 9
A four-lesson AI ethics investigation
Case file 09 / Fictional school system
ProjectORACLE
An AI system is being considered for use in a school. Your team will investigate how it works, test the evidence and decide what responsible use should look like.
The question at the heart of the case
Under what conditions, if any, should ORACLE be used in a school?
Begin the investigation
Choose your first room
Work in pairs. No login or leaderboard.
Project ORACLE | Investigation 01
5 investigations
The AI Archive
Recover five files tracing how computers moved from instructions to generated answers.
Work with a partner. Read the three files, talk about what the school should do, then answer three short questions. Keep your answers for the school debate.
Open room
Project ORACLE | Investigation 02
5 investigations
The ORACLE Ethics Audit
Examine five fictional incidents before a school decides whether ORACLE could be used responsibly.
Work with a partner. Read the three files, talk about what the school should do, then answer three short questions. Keep your answers for the school debate.
Open room
Optional extra / After the investigations
Two companion escape missions
The five-stage investigations and written case files stay unchanged. When your pair has finished a room, use its evidence to solve a separate set of connected locks. No timer, login or compulsory writing. Allow extra time; these missions are not part of the four-lesson timetable.
The four-lesson sequence
From understanding to a reasoned verdictThe ORACLE Ethics Audit
Investigate fictional incidents involving fairness, privacy and accountability.
Prepare the approval case
Organise your findings, stakeholder views and safeguards in pairs and teams.
The approval hearing
Debate the evidence, then write an individual verdict.