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Hine, Andrea

 
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Synopsis

Your child is already using AI. Nobody has explained it to them.

It finished their sentence before they typed it. It picked the next video. It answered their homework question with total confidence — and it might have been wrong.

We learned the internet by falling into it. Let's not do that twice.

There's no shortage of alarm about kids and AI. There's very little that actually explains it to a kid. This book does — sixteen illustrated pages, one idea each, for readers 8 to 11. No hype, no doom, no jargon. Just a girl called Sarah, a cheerful robot called Bolt who's wrong more often than he sounds, and a clear look inside the machine.

Your child will find out:

  • How it actually works — it guesses the next word, it doesn't look anything up, and it can't count the R's in "strawberry"
  • How it goes wrong — it invents facts and whole books, says them with total confidence, and folds the moment you push back
  • Where your words go — the warehouse your question lands in, who owns it, and why your name and school don't belong in a chat box
  • Why it isn't a person — "I'm so happy to help!" is not a feeling, and work you hand to a machine is work you don't get to keep

Ends with tools, not warnings. The Pilot's Rules — ten lines a child can actually remember. A flight log to fill in. And a plain-spoken section for grown-ups on supervision, shared screens, and what the under-16 social media bans are really about.

For: parents of 8–11 year olds who use ChatGPT or similar tools for homework · teachers and homeschoolers introducing AI literacy · anyone looking for a gift for a curious kid that isn't a screen.

Written by Andrea Hine, who works in AI and spent fifteen years in industrial operations watching organisations absorb new technology — mostly badly.

AI is not going away. This is how your child meets it with their eyes wide open.

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