AI and us
Make it your advisor, not your dictator.
The research doesn’t say use less AI. It says how you use it decides whether you get sharper or duller. Students who let a chatbot hand them answers scored 17% worse once it was taken away; students given hints lost nothing.1 Pick a door.
Learn
What’s true
What the studies show and how big they are, what deepfakes actually do to trust, what feeds do to anger, and where the law stands.
10 minutes
Do
The whole thing
Think first and ask for hints; turn off training in each app; check before you share. Plus kids, feeds and a family safe word.
30 minutes · $0
Practice
Keep it going
A daily habit with three prompts, a drill on telling real from fake, and the checklist.
Daily · 2 minutes
If you only have
- Thirty seconds: turn off training in the chatbot you use most.
- Two minutes: agree a family safe word. A cloned voice can sound exactly like your kid.
- Your next question to a chatbot: write your own rough answer first, then ask it to argue against you.
Where this started: Towards a more loving, hopeful and faithful humanity, an essay from 2025. These pages are built from the sources, not the essay; its page lists what has changed since it was written.
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