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AI Smarts

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Use AI like you know what you're doing.

Eight short lessons on the things that actually matter: how AI really works, when it makes things up, what should never go in the chat box, and where the line sits on schoolwork. Written for readers around 9–13 — no baby talk, no scare stories.

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8 lessons · about 44 minutes total · 33 check questions · 12 real situations

The lessons

Judgment Calls

12 situations you will genuinely run into — the essay due tomorrow, the voice on the phone, the clip that makes you furious. Pick what you'd do and find out what it costs.

House Rules

Build a family AI agreement you can actually print and stick on the fridge. Tick what you agree to, both sign it, done.

The eight big ideas, in one place

  1. 1

    AI writes the words that most plausibly come next — plausible is usually true, but not always.

  2. 2

    If a detail matters, check it outside the chat before you repeat it as fact.

  3. 3

    Type it only if you'd be fine with a stranger reading it a year from now.

  4. 4

    The work you hand in has to be your thinking — get help before the work, not instead of it.

  5. 5

    AI averages what people already wrote, and the average of human writing is not the same as fair.

  6. 6

    You can't spot a good fake by looking at it — verify through a channel you already trust.

  7. 7

    A chatbot can keep you company, but it cannot keep you safe — for that you need a real person.

  8. 8

    “The AI said it” is never a defence — you own whatever you pass on.