Working with Vicky: an AI-literacy note

For professors, lab instructors and institution staff. Last updated 2 October 2026.

What Vicky is

Vicky is an AI teaching assistant for medical and health-sciences education. It answers questions, guides students through procedures, drafts lesson material for professors to review, and prepares summaries of how a student performed. Everything Vicky writes, says or draws is produced by AI models (large language models, text-to-speech and image generation), not by a person.

What Vicky is not

  • Not a medical device. Vicky is for learning in simulation. It does not diagnose, and it gives no advice about the care of real patients.
  • Not the one who grades. Vicky's assessments are advisory. You decide the grade, after looking at what the student actually did.
  • Not a person, and not always right. Vicky can be wrong, including on clinical facts. Treat its output as a draft to check, not as a source to cite.

What students are told

Before a student first talks to Vicky, the platform tells them they are talking to an AI and links the privacy policy. Under every chat answer they see "Vicky may make mistakes". You do not need to give a separate AI notice.

How AI-made media is marked

Narration you hear in a lesson is an AI voice, and pictures Vicky generates are AI images. Both carry a short visible label where they appear ("AI-generated voice", "AI-generated image"), with no extra click. Each stored file also carries a machine-readable record that it is AI-generated: images keep the signed Content Credentials (C2PA) of the model provider or carry our own metadata, and narration files carry the same record in their audio tags. The platform keeps the same record beside each file.

Your part

  • Review before you publish. Lesson text, quiz questions, narration and pictures that Vicky drafts are yours to check and edit before students see them.
  • Review before you grade. Read Vicky's summary next to the student's actual performance, and override it when you disagree. The override is recorded.
  • Keep it in scope. Do not write lab content that asks Vicky for advice about a real patient.

How to report a wrong answer

Under any Vicky answer, press the thumbs-down, choose Inaccurate (or another reason) and add a sentence about what was wrong. That report reaches Pi tech with the answer attached. If something could cause harm (clinical misinformation shown to students, another institution's data in a session), report it the same way and tell your institution's Vicky lead straight away. You do not need to be certain first.

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