Staying Safe

AI has given dishonest people new tools. Here's what you need to know - and what you can do about it.

The first two books in this series had mostly good news. This one looks at the other side.

Scams that used to be easy to spot are becoming harder to detect. Fake content that once required professional skill to produce can now be created in minutes. And the same technology that helps your bank protect your finances is being used by fraudsters to impersonate your grandchildren.

Staying Safe is an honest, clear-eyed guide to the risks AI has introduced - and, more importantly, to the specific knowledge that actually makes a difference. Not a catalogue of everything that could go wrong, but the things that are genuinely worth knowing: how voice scams work and how to stop them cold. How to tell real information from fabricated content. What your privacy rights are and how to use them. The online safety basics that still matter. And why the judgment you've developed over a lifetime remains your most reliable protection of all.

Informed, not frightened. That's the goal.

Staying Safe is Book 3 of the AI for the Rest of Us series - five plain-English guides to understanding and using AI with confidence.