FERMI - AI DISCLOSURE

1. How We Use AI

Fermi uses artificial intelligence to help students learn math and science. When you work on a problem, AI is involved in several ways:

• Tutoring: the AI tutor reads your question and provides step-by-step guidance, hints, and explanations tailored to the problem you are working on.
• Grading and feedback: when you submit your work, AI analyzes your solution and provides detailed feedback on what you did well and where you can improve.
• Personalization: AI tracks which concepts you have mastered and where you need more practice, so it can adjust the difficulty and focus of your learning.
• Speech and handwriting: AI converts your voice to text and recognizes your handwriting and drawings on the canvas.

2. AI Can Make Mistakes

AI is a powerful tool, but it is not perfect. Sometimes AI may:

• Give an incorrect answer or explanation.
• Misunderstand your question or what you wrote.
• Provide feedback that does not fully match your work.

These errors are sometimes called "hallucinations" in AI terminology. We actively monitor our AI for accuracy and work continuously to reduce mistakes.

If something looks wrong, tell your teacher and use the feedback button in the app to report an issue. Your report helps us improve.

3. Your Privacy and Data

We take your privacy seriously. Here is how your data is handled when AI is involved:

• Your inputs are not used to train third-party AI models. When you type, speak, or draw something, it is sent to an AI provider to generate a response — but it is never stored by the provider or used to improve their foundation models.
• Fermi does not train on School Account data or on data from any user under 13. Personal Account users may opt in to contribute de-identified data to improve Fermi's service; the default is opt-out.
• Your data is encrypted. Your name, email, and other personal information are encrypted using AES-256-GCM, both when stored and when transmitted (TLS 1.2 or higher).
• Your school controls your data. For School Accounts, your school decides how your data is used. Fermi acts on your school's instructions under a written data-processing agreement.
• No advertising. Your data is never used for advertising, marketing, or building commercial profiles.

For full details, see our Privacy Policy.

4. AI Providers

Fermi uses several third-party AI providers for language understanding, voice transcription, text-to-speech, and handwriting recognition. All providers operate under signed data-processing agreements that prohibit (i) using your data to train their foundation models, (ii) using your data for advertising, and (iii) retaining your data beyond what is necessary to provide the service.

The current list of AI providers and other sub-processors is published at fermi.ai/subprocessors. We update this list when providers change.

5. Automated Grading and Feedback

AI generates feedback on your work, including correctness scoring, hint suggestions, and progress tracking. This feedback is intended to help you learn — not to make decisions that significantly affect your education.

Important things to know about AI-generated grading:

• AI feedback is a learning aid, not a final grade. Your teacher remains responsible for the grade you receive in your class.
• If AI feedback does not match your work, your teacher can review and correct it.
• You can ask your teacher to re-examine any AI-generated feedback you disagree with.

6. What AI Does Not Decide

We do not use AI to make decisions about:

• Academic placement, promotion, or retention.
• Disciplinary action.
• College or career recommendations.
• Special education classifications or accommodations.
• Eligibility for school programs or services.

These decisions are made by educators and administrators, not by Fermi's AI.

7. Fairness

We are committed to ensuring our AI treats all students fairly. We regularly review our AI systems for biases in tutoring, grading, and feedback to make sure outcomes are equitable regardless of who you are.

If you ever feel the AI is being unfair, please let your teacher know or report it through the feedback button in the app. We take fairness reports seriously.

8. Your Rights

You and your parents have rights regarding your data, including the right to access, correct, delete, and withdraw consent. These rights are described in detail in our Privacy Policy, Section 10.

9. Questions

If you have questions about how AI works in Fermi, talk to your teacher or contact us at compliance@fermi.ai. Your school's administration can also request detailed information about our AI practices under their data-processing agreement.