Canonical lesson
Study the complete framework for impartiality, confidentiality, transparency, quality and accountability.
Open PDF ↗OFFICIAL STATISTICS & AI · OS-A03
Professional Obligations
Exercise professional judgement when AI assists statistical work. Protect the public purpose, classify information, verify claims and record an accountable decision.
01 / LEARNING OUTCOME
Decide within authority and evidence.
Apply impartiality, confidentiality, transparency, quality and accountability to scenarios. Distinguish verified facts from AI assertions, identify mandatory gates and defend an accept, condition, restrict, reject or escalate decision.
02 / PROFESSIONAL REASONING
Five obligations inform the memorandum.
- 01
Impartiality
Protect purpose, methods and communication from inappropriate influence.
- 02
Confidentiality
Classify inputs, prompts, logs and outputs before any AI interaction.
- 03
Transparency
Explain sources, uncertainty, limitations and material AI assistance.
- 04
Quality
Use one acceptance standard for baseline and assisted workflows.
- 05
Accountability
Name the person who may review, approve, correct and stop release.
03 / VIDEO LESSON
Professional Obligations
Watch the OS-A03 lesson on professional obligations in AI-assisted official statistics. Then use the notebook and practice cases below to prepare your judgement memorandum.
Open the lesson on YouTube ↗04 / LEARNING RESOURCES
Study, practise and document the decision.
Download the lesson, guided materials, standalone notebook and memorandum toolkit. Exercise solutions are openly available to learners; attempt the cases before reading them. The lesson video is forthcoming; its preview is shown above.
Executive brief
Review the leadership decisions and mandatory controls.
Open PDF ↗Learner guide
Follow the scenario laboratory and understand its structured outputs.
Open PDF ↗Illustrated teaching presentation
Download the illustrated PowerPoint with learner-facing narration notes.
Download PowerPoint ↗Video thumbnail
Download the thumbnail for the published OS-A03 lesson video.
Download thumbnail ↗Standalone executable notebook
Run the standalone synthetic Kintaba scenario notebook.
Download notebook ↗Practice exercises
Work through four professional judgement cases.
Open PDF ↗Practice solutions
Review the explained solutions after attempting the exercises.
Open PDF ↗Learner assessment brief
Use the independent case and public assessment criteria.
Open PDF ↗Professional judgement toolkit
Record authority, evidence, obligations, decision and review.
Open PDF ↗05 / PATHWAY CONTINUITY
Professional judgement connects the first three modules.
OS-A01 mapped the information ecosystem. OS-A02 examined AI methods and their failure modes. OS-A03 makes authority, verification and professional obligations explicit before use-case selection in OS-A04.
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