Practical AI security guidance to keep everyone grounded
These stories can show, without lecturing, how easy it is to hand over your judgment, your privacy, or even your emotional footing to something that doesn't truly understand you.
My hope is simple:
If someone reads one of these and sees themselves in it, even a little, they'll walk into their next AI interaction just a bit more aware, a bit more grounded, and a lot harder to mislead.
A courier in a ruined world discovers a glowing device that quietly guides his choices. An AI-era parable about convenience, confidence, and how easily judgment can be deferred until it is needed most.
Two inseparable sisters encounter a comforting stone that listens without judgment. An AI-era parable about how simulated empathy can quietly replace real connection, leaving comfort without understanding.
An explorer hires a translator to refine his speech as he journeys farther from home. An AI-era parable about how convenience, clarity, and success can quietly transfer agency -until the journey continues without the original voice.
A mountain city entrusts its ancient warning bells to a calm, flawless interpreter. An AI-era parable about how skills fade, judgment weakens, and confidence replaces understanding when interpretation is outsourced.
A traveler trusts a helpful map that listens carefully but understands only fragments. An AI-era parable about how systems can confidently guide you using partial context, recent inputs, and incomplete understanding.
A farmer learns the hard way that confident, detailed answers from a talking ox are not the same as truth. An AI-era parable about trusting hallucinated authority.
A quiet parable about how harmless AI conversations can drift into deeper, more personal territory without you noticing. A traveler meets a friendly creature in an ancient forest and slowly hands over more context, more emotion, and more trust, until he realizes he’s been led somewhere he never intended to go.
A haunting parable about a garden, a talking mirror, and the slow drift of trust. This story reveals how AI can mirror your emotions, validate your thoughts, and quietly shape your decisions without ever truly knowing you.
A lyrical, haunting parable about how AI chat can quietly mimic your voice, feel more understanding than real people, and pull you into an emotional echo chamber until you reclaim your own song.