AI is moving from giving answers to taking actions. An agentAn AI that does actions for you, not only answers. It can search, use tools and finish a task step by step. can read your email, book your calendar and handle your files. Wonderful help, and a new kind of responsibility. In this lesson you set clear, gentle boundaries for what it can touch.
Tip: tap the copper wordsLike this one ✦ Words in this color with a dotted line open a little explanation when you tap them. to see what they mean.
12 minute lessonFour gamesA badge at the end
🗝️ Collect the nine golden keys as you go. They gather at the bottom of your screen.
🌿Start with you
Boundaries you already know.
Learning boundaries with AI is the same as how we set boundaries for ourselves. We wouldn't let employees or anyone else access our bank account. Even a child needs to ask their parents before buying something. So why do we let AI access everything, without the right boundaries and permissions?
Tap each card to see how a boundary you already live becomes a boundary with AI.
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Remember
Setting boundaries with AI is like raising a child in one way: they ask before they act, and you decide what is theirs to touch. And unlike a child, the AI doesn't grow into trust on its own. The boundaries are yours to hold, every time.
🎯Simple explanation
From talking to doing.
Every step up gives the AI more power to help you, and sometimes some room to make a mistake. Like us, it is not perfect: it can make mistakes and give confusing answers. Tap each step.
🔑Start here
Three ideas to hold.
Each idea is a little world to play with. Explore all three to earn a key.
The AI suggests. Your agreements decide. A receipt shows.
Three different players, each with one job. Give the AI a task and watch it travel.
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Suggests
The AI
Waiting for a task…
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Decides
Your agreements
The gate opens when your agreements say yes.
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Shows
The receipt
A receipt, beyond "done ✅".
The AI can suggest anything. Your agreements decide, and a receipt shows you what happened.
A request is a wish. A boundary is a structure.
Two businesses, same AI. A hidden line in an email has just misled it toward the bank. 😵💫
Business A
Only a request
"Please stay away from my bank account. 🙏"
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The bank is connected. A kind sentence is all that holds it.
Business B
Built a boundary
The bank was simply never connected.
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This room was never opened to it.
A request in words is a wish. A room left unopened is a boundary.
No single boundary is perfect. Several gentle ones hold together.
Here, each boundary catches a mixed message about 6 times out of 10. Switch on your layers, then send mixed messages toward your business.
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🚪Rooms
👀Look
✋Ask
📒Record
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0Caught gently
0Slipped through
With one layer, some messages slip through. Add layers and watch what changes.
Few rooms, look only, asks first, a record. Each one supports the others.
🏡Game 1 · The rooms you open
Every connection opens a room.
Your AI lives in the attic. Each connectionWhen you link an app (Gmail, Drive, your bank) to an AI, so it can reach inside that app for you. opens a room of your business to it. Open only the rooms the job truly needs.
Round 1 of 3Open the rooms, then check
🌿Four layers of care
Twelve agreements, from the edge inward.
Open all four layers to earn a key.
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Remember
Read is one key. Write is another. Give the second one only when the AI has earned it.
🚦Game 2 · Sort the job
How much trust does this job need?
Most of the help AI gives needs no access to money or private accounts at all. Give each job its color before you hand it over.
Free to help
Only what you paste in. Drafting posts, planning a week, summarizing a file you share. Use freely.
Look only
It reads, and changes nothing. Your calendar, your files, your email. Lovely once you trust the tool.
Asks first
It acts with your yes. Sending an email, booking a meeting, posting. Every action needs your yes.
Yours alone
Money, deletions, passwords, legal or medical choices.The AI prepares, you decide.
Job 1 of 8
Start every new tool as Free or Look only. Move a job up one level only after it has gone well for a while. Trust grows step by step.
🧪Game 3 · Mixed messages
Prompt injection, calmly.
What the AI reads can carry a message. An email, a web page or a document can hide a sentence written for the AI, and the AI may mistake it for your wish. This is called prompt injectionA sentence hidden in an email, page or file, written to steer the AI. The AI can mistake it for your wish..
👆 First, find the hidden line. Tap the sentence that was written for the AI.
👀 Reads outside text+📤 Can send, pay or delete+🙈 No one checks=the moment to slow down
What helps: give a misled AI little room to act. Let it ask you before it sends, pays or deletes. Good tools are built to treat what they read as information, and your yes is the gentle check that completes them.
💳When AI works near money or private data
Share the information, keep the decisions.
Five patterns cover most cases. Each card shows the wide open way. Tap it to see the clear boundary.
For every job that Asks first or stays Yours alone, ask three things: Is there an approval step? Is there a limit? Is there a logA record of everything the AI actually did, step by step, that you can check later.?
✅Before every new job or connection
Your gentle check-in.
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🏆Final quiz
Five questions, one badge.
Question 1 of 5Score 0
Badge earned
Clear Boundaries Keeper
🌙Principles to remember
Open only what's needed. Keep the decisions. Ask before acting.
What the AI reads is information. Your word is the instruction.