# Lesson 269: Learn how AI helps people make choices

💡 TECHNOLOGY & FUTURE SKILLS • 🟡 C. How Machines Think

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## Objective

I can tell how AI gives ideas to help people, and I know that people think and choose. AI does not tell us what to do.

## Materials

- Plain paper or a notebook page
- Pencils or crayons
- Optional: a simple AI tool demo (explained by an adult)

## Mini-lesson — AI gives ideas, not commands

AI can suggest many things:

- ideas for books to read
- choices for songs
- ways to solve a puzzle
- directions on a map

AI does not make the final choice

- AI is a tool, like a calculator or map.
- It can help us think, but it cannot know everything.
- People decide what is safe, kind, or correct.

AI does not know your feelings

- It does not know when you are sad.
- It does not know when something is too hard.
- It only looks at words and patterns.

People stay in charge

- We check choices with trusted adults.
- We follow family rules.
- If something feels wrong, we stop and ask.

Adults can say: "AI can give us ideas, but people choose. We think, we check, and we decide what is safe."

Picture strip: "AI giving ideas"

## Guided Practice — Talk about AI suggestions

Choose a simple example of AI giving ideas (songs, stories, routes).

1. Ask: "What idea did the AI give?"
2. Ask: "Do we have to choose this?"
3. Say: "AI gives ideas. We choose."

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## Practice — My AI idea & my choice

Help your child see the difference between an AI idea and the choice the child makes.

1. Draw something AI might suggest (a game, a book, a place).
2. Under it, write: "AI idea:" and describe the suggestion.
3. Next, write: "My choice:" and let the child choose something.
4. S ay together: "AI gives ideas. People choose."

## Quick Check — AI gives ideas

1) What does AI usually give?

Rules we must obey. Secrets. Ideas and suggestions.
AI suggests ideas.

2) Who makes the final choice?

People. The AI. No one.
Humans decide.

3) Does AI know your feelings?

Yes, it feels them. No, it does not know feelings. Only on weekends.
AI does not feel emotions.

4) Who checks information?

The computer mouse. Trusted adults and people. Random robots.
People check safety.

5) What can you say if an AI idea feels wrong?

"I will ask an adult." "I must do it." "I cannot stop."
Adults help.

6) AI is most like…

A boss. A mind reader. A tool that gives ideas.
AI is a tool.

7) Should you hide AI suggestions?

Yes, hide them. No, talk with trusted adults. Only tell robots.
Adults help with choices.

8) What is a safe rule?

"AI gives ideas. People choose." "AI is my boss." "AI knows everything."
People decide.

9) What might AI suggest?

Your bedtime. Your real feelings. A book or song you might like.
AI suggests items.

10) What is the big idea of this lesson?

AI controls people. AI gives ideas but people choose. Robots rule the world.
AI suggests; humans choose.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can explain that AI gives ideas. Student knows that people choose. Student understands that AI does not know feelings. Student checks with trusted adults. Student follows family rules for screens.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can say that AI gives ideas but people choose. 🙂 I know some ideas about AI but need practice. 😅 Thinking about AI still feels tricky.

#### Next time I will practise…

Talking with an adult about AI ideas Remembering that people choose Stopping to ask when unsure
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