Digital Childhood Script Series
“The AI said it's true, so it must be.”
What to say
How AI actually works
"AI has no way of knowing if what it just told you is true. It's guessing the next word, kind of like how your phone guesses what you're about to type. If you ask it for a quote from a book, it'll make one up that sounds exactly like the author."
The rest of the script
There's more to this one.
The other 4 steps are in the app, word for word, including what to say when they push back. You can start free, and there's nothing to download.
Read the rest in the appWhy this matters
Kids trust anything that sounds confident, and AI is really, really good at sounding confident. So I'd help them get in the habit of checking it somewhere real before they believe it, and that's something they'll use for the rest of their lives.
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