Week 4: Responsible Power
Day 25: Evaluating AI Output
Goal
Learn practical ways to judge quality.
Learn
Evaluation can be simple: compare against a source, run tests, ask an expert, check calculations, use rubrics, measure time saved, or track error rate. For creative work, evaluate clarity, originality, audience fit, and usefulness. For factual work, evaluate accuracy and source quality.
Behind the scenes
AI tools are products wrapped around models, data, prompts, retrieval, safety systems, and user interfaces. The better you understand the wrapper, the better your results get.Example
Example: in a real workflow, this idea helps you decide how to use AI carefully. For this lesson, connect the goal to one task you already do: learn practical ways to judge quality..
Practice
Create a five-point rubric for an AI answer: accuracy, completeness, clarity, usefulness, and risk.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
You can grade AI output instead of accepting it automatically.