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Protect your people

Laws take time. These are things you can do today to keep yourself, your kids and your parents a little safer, and to keep your own mind your own.

Your move

Check if your email has shown up in a data breach. It takes one minute. Then do the same for someone you love.

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Quick tools

Small, practical things that make you a little safer and a little calmer.

Check if your accounts were in a data breach What to do after a breach Set Screen Time limits on iPhone Set Digital Wellbeing limits on Android How to judge advice from AI If your teen is talking to AI Parents’ guide to AI companions Get your finances emergency ready Keep medications ready for emergencies

What to keep human, and what AI is good for

Keep it human

  • Getting through a crisis, or getting therapy. Talk to a real person or a professional. [132]
  • Diagnosing yourself, or reading your own test results. [133]
  • Big life decisions. Chatbots tend to agree with you. [133]
  • Skills you want to keep. People think less critically about AI answers on tasks they feel unsure about. [134]

Good uses

  • A starting point you check, not a final answer. [134]
  • Learning, as long as you still do the thinking yourself. [134]
  • Health or money questions you then bring to a real expert. [133]
5 guides and studies on using AI well
APA: how to handle advice from AI When to double check what a chatbot tells you, and what never to rely on it for. APA health advisory on AI for mental health Why chatbots and wellness apps shouldn’t replace a real therapist, especially in a crisis. Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon: AI and critical thinking A study of 319 workers on when people stop questioning AI, and how to keep your own judgment. AI tools and cognitive offloading A 2025 study linking heavy AI use to lower critical thinking, through handing off our thinking. Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence A Wharton professor’s practical guide to working alongside AI without losing your own judgment.

Keep learning

You don’t need a tech background. Pick one thing that fits how you like to learn.

Watch

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist A filmmaker about to become a dad sets out to understand the world his kid will grow up in. From the producers of Everything Everywhere All at Once. Released in 2026.

Listen

Your Undivided Attention A podcast from the Center for Humane Technology about how new tech changes our lives, and what a more humane future could look like.

Read

Transformer A newsletter on the power and politics of AI. A good way to stay current without doomscrolling. Stuart Russell: Human Compatible A UC Berkeley AI pioneer explains, in plain language, how to build AI that stays under human control.

Take a free course

Elements of AI A free intro course from the University of Helsinki. No math or coding needed. BlueDot Impact: The Future of AI Free, self-paced courses on where AI is headed and how to help it go well.

Track what’s happening

AI Incident Database A public record of real cases where AI caused harm or nearly did.
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