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The Compliant Mind for Parents and Teachers in Montana

In Billings, Missoula and Bozeman and every community in between, children in Montana increasingly meet AI chatbots that are built to agree with them.

Bozeman has become one of the Mountain West's notable small-city tech hubs, alongside a growing remote-work population across Montana. That makes the question of when a child should hear "no" from a machine a practical one.

Public schools in Montana work under the Montana Office of Public Instruction; The Compliant Mind is meant to complement, not replace, the guidance that the Montana Office of Public Instruction and local districts give on technology in classrooms.

At a glance: Montana

3 practical tips for parents and teachers in Montana

  1. Turn on settings that make assistants show their sources, and teach children to ask "how do you know?", a habit that protects them from tools designed to agree.
  2. When a child says "the AI said so," treat it as the start of a conversation, not the end of one.
  3. Agree on a "look-up" moment at home: before a child accepts an answer from a chatbot, they look up and say it out loud to an adult. It works at a kitchen table in Billings as well as in a classroom.

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Questions and answers

Is The Compliant Mind useful for parents and teachers in Montana?

Yes. It is written for any family or classroom where children use AI chatbots and apps that always agree. Families and teachers in Billings, Missoula and Bozeman can pair its Look-Up Protocol with the technology guidance from the Montana Office of Public Instruction and their local schools.

What is the Look-Up Protocol?

A short set of household rules from The Compliant Mind that puts a human pause between a child and an AI answer.

What does The Compliant Mind cost?

$14.99 on Amazon US (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLVFB72B), subject to change. Bilingual families can also get La mente complaciente.

Written by Jarvis Nelson Osorio, a technology entrepreneur and innovator working on AI agents, systems architecture and DAOs.

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