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Short, interactive lessons for parents and teachers — what AI actually is, how it gets things wrong, how it is used against people, and a password your family can use tonight. One question at a time, free, no signup.

• Start here • 5 questions • 5 min

  What is AI?

  Most people are told to worry about AI before anyone tells them what it is. This is that missing explanation.

  • What counts as AI
  • What it does when it answers
  • Where it learned everything
  • Whether it remembers you
  • What it is actually good for
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• Lesson 02 • 2 questions • 2 min

  Make your family a password

  AI can clone a voice from seconds of audio. Pick a word only your family knows, and learn the mistake that hands it over.

  • Choosing a word nothing public contains
  • The cloned-voice emergency call
  • Ask, never offer
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• Lesson 03 • 5 questions • 5 min

  How AI gets things wrong

  Five ways an AI answer fails — and they are not the same failure wearing different hats.

  • Invented details
  • Out-of-date answers
  • No way to check a source
  • Questions it should decline
  • Agreeing when you push back
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• Lesson 04 • 5 questions • 5 min

  AI scams

  A voice you recognize, a photograph, perfect spelling. All three used to be evidence.

  • Voice cloning
  • AI-generated images
  • Manufactured urgency
  • Deepfaked video calls
  • Messages too polished to doubt
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• Lesson 05 • 5 questions • 5 min

  AI and your money

  Card alerts, verification codes and endorsements that are not endorsements.

  • Alerts that investigate themselves
  • One-time codes
  • Small test charges
  • Faked endorsements
  • Where AI stops being useful
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• Lesson 06 • 5 questions • 5 min

  A friend in need?

  Six months of kindness, then one urgent request for money. What the time, the photos and the secrecy actually prove.

  • What six months of messages proves
  • A photo, and a clean image search
  • Where the conversation was always going
  • The request to keep it secret
  • What to do before you are sure
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• Lesson 07 • 5 questions • 5 min

  Can you trust AI with your classroom?

  Not how to use a chatbot — where a teacher’s judgment has to stay when one is in the room.

  • Detectors that are wrong
  • Confident answers in student work
  • Grading at scale
  • Plans that miss your class
  • Student records
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• Lesson 08 • 3 questions • 3 min

  The Yes-Person Trap

  Why a chatbot is always on your side — and why that is training, not friendship.

  • Validation that asks nothing
  • Trained on ratings
  • Getting an honest answer
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