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Family AI Roles

When AI is tutor, coach, calculator, editor, brainstorm partner — and when it should stay closed.

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Tutor

AI explains things you do not understand yet. You practice explaining it back without the tool.

Coach

AI works with you on something you are building. It asks questions, challenges assumptions, pushes you further.

Calculator

AI handles the mechanical, repetitive, or time-consuming part while you focus on the thinking.

Editor

AI revises something you wrote. You decide what stays, what goes, and what changes.

Brainstorm partner

AI generates options and starting points for a project you own.

“Before you open an AI tool, name the role — and keep the work for yourself.”

When AI should stay closed

Emotional processing, health decisions, family conflicts, legal questions, anything needing a human in the loop.

The three-question roles test

What role am I giving this tool?What part am I keeping for myself?Will I be there, or will AI?

Make it yours

Our rule: ________________________________

We will try: ________________________________

Ask a human when: _________________________