school prj

i need help with a school proj we need to make a working tic tac toe board with working AI i made the tic tac toe board work so taht i can place x's and o's on the board but i cant figure out how to make the AI for it any advice

Use a fucka load of ifs =D ? Its like 3by3, Real-looking AI should be quite simple to make, just spam it with ifs and switches.