AI chatbots are not people: Digital Life lesson notes (ages 8+)

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AI chatbots are not people

🤖chatbot💬only words📕check a book🧑use it together

A chatbot is a program, not a person.

The big ideaA chatbot is a computer program, not a person. Keep private things out of the chat.

A chatbot is a computer program. People built it, and it learned from lots of writing to make its words.

It can sound like a person, but it has no body and no family.

It can make mistakes and still sound sure, so check big things with a book, a teacher or a grown-up.

Keep your full name, address and phone out of a chat. A password is only for your family.

What a chatbot can and cannot do.

The chatbot said a frog has five legs.
Lila counted four on her toy frog, and Kai's frog book said four.
The chatbot made a mistake and still sounded sure, so Kai crossed out the five and wrote four.

Checking a fact.

The chatbot asked Kai to tell it about himself, and Kai began to type private things.
His finger stopped, and he did not press send.
He asked Dad to look at the chat, and Dad said, That was smart.

A chatbot saying best friend uses only words. It does not feel as you do.
Do not type your address because a chatbot asks. You do not have to do what it says.
Do not use a chatbot alone in secret. Use it with a grown-up's OK.
If it says something odd, stop and tell a grown-up. You are never in trouble for telling.

Answers: 1. No · 2. Stop and tell a grown-up · 3. Check, the chatbot may be wrong · 4. A friend or a grown-up, not a chatbot

Try at homeAsk a grown-up: do we use a chatbot, and what are our rules for it? Only use one with a grown-up's OK.

For grown-upsAgree your family's chatbot rule, for example that it is used together, and read one answer aloud to check one fact in a book.

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