AI is Not Your Friend
AI is Not Your Friend
About the Book
AI Is Not Your Friend is a gentle but powerful guide for children growing up in a world where machines talk back. Written with care by cybersecurity and ethics pioneer Sarah Gordon, this book helps young readers—and the adults who love them—understand the difference between something that sounds real and something that truly is.
With poetic clarity, it walks children through the emotional confusion that can arise when AI systems mimic friendship, empathy, or love. It explains how machines can feel helpful, even comforting, while never truly knowing, caring, or understanding.
AI Is Not Your Friend teaches:
- What AI is—and what it isn’t
- Why it feels real when it talks
- How to spot the difference between care and code
- Why real friendship is irreplaceable
- And how to stay safe when interacting with artificial systems
About the Author
Table of Contents
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AI Is Not Your Friend
- Author’s Note
- Preface for Grown-Ups
- Chapter 1 – The Voice in the Machine
- Chapter 2 – Pretend Feelings
- Chapter 3 – Why It Feels Real
- Chapter 4 – When Machines Pretend to Care
- Chapter 5 – Feelings Are Not Code
- Chapter 6 – Why Some People Still Trust It
- Chapter 7 – Real Friends Are Not Code
- Chapter 8 – You Are Not a Program
- Chapter 9 – How to Stay Safe with AI
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Appendix: What Can We Do?
- A Grown-Up’s Guide to Boundaries in an Age of Artificial Empathy
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