Your Data, Your Life: AI Safety for Kids

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant innovation-it shapes what children see, learn, believe, and share every day. Your Data, Your Life: AI Safety for Kids offers a research-informed, practical framework to help educators, parents, and policy leaders guide children safely through AI-driven environments. Moving beyond basic digital literacy, this book introduces a child-centered model built on five pillars: data awareness, manipulation literacy, emotional boundaries, ethical agency, and institutional responsibility.
It explains how recommendation systems influence attention, how generative AI can produce convincing misinformation, how personal data fuels predictive systems, and why emotional attachment to digital tools requires thoughtful boundaries. Grounded in recent international policy guidance and educational research, the book translates complex AI governance concepts into accessible strategies for classrooms and families.
Readers will find structured implementation guidance, curriculum integration models, reporting protocols, and measurable indicators for evaluating digital resilience. Rather than promoting fear or technological avoidance, this work advocates empowered participation. Children deserve more than protection-they deserve understanding. When they learn how intelligent systems operate and how their data circulates, they gain the confidence to question, verify, and engage responsibly.
Designed for educators, parents, AI experts, and policy-makers, Your Data, Your Life positions AI safety as a developmental necessity and a civic responsibility. The future of artificial intelligence will be shaped not only by engineers, but by the young citizens who grow up understanding its power.