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The User Manual for Everyone (Including Children)
What to Ask, What to Avoid, and How to Stay in Control with ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
By Dr. Gbemisola Adetayo · Foreword by Mike Besso, Enterprise Data Specialist & Assistant Vice President, Zurich Risk Engineering
This is a working handbook, not a book about AI. Every chapter ends somewhere you can actually act.
Set the purpose, the context and the limits before you start — using guardrail prompts you can copy straight out of the book.
Decision tables that show where AI genuinely helps, where it quietly harms, and what to do instead in each case.
How to read output critically, spot invented detail, protect what you share, and verify the things that actually matter.
Family AI agreement templates, age-appropriate boundaries, and scripts for the conversation with a child of any age.
THE GAP NO ONE IS FILLING
Billions of people use AI every day, and almost none of them were given the operating instructions. Every other powerful tool we hand people arrives with guidance on what it is for, where it fails, and what not to do with it. This one arrived with a text box and a blinking cursor. This book is the missing manual.
hours of required training before anyone can use these tools
safety manuals shipped with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
book that fills the gap — this one
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
Seeking protection without bans. Age-appropriate boundaries, family AI agreements, and scripts for the conversation.
Needing classroom guidelines, curriculum integration, and policy frameworks that actually work.
Maintaining critical thinking amid workplace AI pressure. Productivity gains without dependency.
Leveraging AI responsibly in business — knowing where it helps and where it harms.
Recognising unhealthy AI usage — in yourself, your children, or people you care about.
Developing AI policies that protect people, not just data. Bulk licensing available.
INSIDE THE BOOK
Every chapter delivers concrete steps you can implement today — guardrail prompts, decision tables, boundary templates, and clear guidance on what AI cannot and should not do.
Demystifies machine learning, neural networks, and why generative AI feels intelligent but remains fundamentally narrow. Understand hallucinations, the "black box," and why AI pattern-matches without ever grasping meaning.
Why AI cannot provide authentic emotion, accountability, human growth, spiritual connection, or true presence — and what happens to people who treat it as if it can.
Where AI should never go: mental health therapy, emotional support replacement, spiritual guidance, and personal development. With documented real cases of harm and safe alternatives for each.
Specific prompts that enforce safe boundaries. Decision matrices showing unsafe practice → why it's dangerous → safe alternative → exact guardrail prompt to use. Copy-paste ready.
Age-appropriate boundaries, family AI agreement templates, scripts for conversations with children of any age, and how to spot manipulation, misinformation, and dependency patterns.
Structure, Accelerate, Filter, Empower — the four-pillar governance system that transforms abstract caution into practical daily action — applicable from the kitchen table to the boardroom.
THE FRAMEWORK
A human-centred governance system that turns abstract caution into immediate, practical action — at every level of AI engagement.
Set clear boundaries and governance. Know where AI goes and where it doesn't.
Leverage AI to enhance your capabilities — responsibly and with full awareness.
Critically evaluate outputs. Protect against hallucinations, manipulation, and harm.
Build lasting AI literacy for yourself, your family, and your community.
NOT ANOTHER AI HYPE BOOK
Focuses on psychological and social risks — the hardest to detect — not just technical concerns.
Draws on international AI literacy guidance, mental health literature, and documented cases of harm.
Every chapter includes concrete steps, guardrail prompts, and decision tables you can use today.
Enables AI benefits while establishing healthy boundaries. Not anti-technology — pro-human.
Guidance scaled from children through adults, across personal, family, educational, and workplace contexts.
Not a journalist or commentator — a Certified AI Security & Governance Professional who uses AI daily.
Dr. Gbemisola Adetayo
Founder, AI User Safety Initiative · AI Governance Architect
FROM THE FOREWORD
“I Wish This Book Had Been There for Me”
— Mike Besso, Enterprise Data Specialist & Assistant Vice President, Zurich Risk Engineering
Print and digital editions available. Bulk orders for schools and institutions accepted.
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