The Bug Hunter Pledge 🐞🔍
Read this together before you meet Buddy. Then everyone signs it.
What you should know first
- Buddy is a computer program, not a person. It doesn’t think or feel, and it
doesn’t “know” things the way you do. It guesses words, one after another.
- Buddy will sometimes be wrong ON PURPOSE. Your teacher set it up that way so you
can practice catching mistakes. That isn’t a trick on you. It’s the game, and now you know the rules.
- Sometimes Buddy will be right. You won’t always know which is which. That’s the point.
- Real AI tools make mistakes by accident, and they often sound very sure when
they do. The skills you practice here work on every AI you’ll ever use.
- Buddy runs on a computer here at school. What you type stays on that computer.
It doesn’t go out to the internet.
My pledge
- I will check, not just trust. When Buddy tells me something, I’ll look for evidence.
- I will check, not just distrust. “Buddy’s always wrong” is lazy too. I’ll prove it either way.
- I will write my expectation down first. Then I’ll compare it to what really happens.
- I will be kind to other hunters. If my partner’s test fails, we figure it out together.
Everyone gets things wrong. That’s how testing works.
- I will tell the truth about my results, even when my test didn’t catch anything.
- I won’t type private stuff into Buddy: no passwords, addresses, or secrets about
me or anyone else.
- If something Buddy says feels wrong, mean, or confusing, I’ll tell a teacher.
Signed: __________ Date: ______
Something to think about (optional): honesty (checking claims), community (hunting
together), fairness (everyone’s test counts, whoever wrote it).